UP EMD SD70ACe No. 8681 and two other widecabs glide across the Wyoming countryside with a Cheyenne-bound manifest in tow. The train is seen here near Hanna, eastbound on the original Union Pacifi... (more)

A series of June thunderstorms wrecked havoc on CSX's southern coalfields of Logan county, leaving signals crushes and much of the mainline impassable until waters receded. Here, before the signal... (more)

A western visitor spends a foggy and humid night unassigned in Norfolk Southern's Dickinson Yard, about 25 miles south of Charleston. After daybreak, the KCS" Southern Belle" EMD SD70ACe... (more)

Making several passes across main two in-between Pikes crossing and Big Sandy Jct., Loram's mainline rail grinder eases west from Brown Street towards Pikes, leaving behind a smoldering railhead. ... (more)

Two consecutively numbered brand new GE ES44AC's idle on the head end of an empty coal train in Crown Siding; the backwoods of C&O's southern West Virginia coalfields. The brand new multi-million ... (more)

Summertime meet... Heavy thunderstorms and flash flooding across the Midwest wrecked havoc for Amtrak's westbound California Zephyr No. 5 in June as it sits alongside a near on-time ... (more)

Detroit-Edison coal loads have just finished loading at Sylvester mine and are seen here easing into one of the railroad's most obscure coal terminals at Elk Run Jct. The train will receive a recr... (more)

With an exclusive 30-person charter, Baltimore & Ohio F7(A) No. 722 toured much of the South Branch Valley Railroad in mid April with photo stops at scenic locations along the Potomac Eagle Scenic... (more)

After ascending N&W's Blue Ridge grade, N&W J-Class 4-8-4 No. 611 passes the interlocking at Webster on the final leg of its roundtrip public excursion from Roanoke to Lynchburg and return.

N&W J-Class No. 611 returns to Christiansburg Mountain! Norfolk & Western No. 611 eases into Shawsville, eastbound on the N&W mainline to Roanoke from Bluefield. The public excursion has ju... (more)

Amtrak service to Mars! A near on-time eastbound California Zephyr passes through the lunar landscape of Floy, Utah, eastbound on the Rio Grande mainline between Solitude and Floy. T... (more)

Heavy storms in the Midwest has resulted in significant delays to Amtrak California Zephyr trains No. 5 and 6 in the past week. Here, a near on-time eastbound No. 6 sits alongside a very tardy wes... (more)

Through Price River Canyon, BNSF ES44DC No. 7343 leads a BNSF trackage rights train through Castle Gate, eastbound on UP's former Rio Grande mainline to Denver from Salt Lake City.

Three clean Union Pacific motors ascend Rio Grande's Soldier Summit with an eastbound empty coal train in tow. The empty train will make good time across the summit, descending into Helper by mid ... (more)

The ugly side to industrial railroading... Intermountain Railcar EMD SW1001 No. 1 has picked a switch outside of the company's Springville, Utah facility on this sweltering June evening. Us... (more)