The 4-wheelers on I-85 hardly pay a bit of attention to 154 as they slip though Lowell, NC with a colorful consist. The dramatic sky only adds to an already colorful scene.

On this day, the second "Giruno" highspeed train RABe 501 # 002 for the SBB left the Stadler Rail commissioning centre Erlen (IBS) for the very first time, to make some brake test runs on the Thur... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

Now I've come close to a good over/under many, many times here, but to have it work out so perfectly, well, there's no describing it! As loaded coal train T193 heads east on the C&O mainline (top)... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

On the morning of June 22, 2017, a northbound BNSF manifest freight curves along the Bighorn River in scenic Sheep Canyon north of Greybull, Wyoming.

It lasted 150 years........but it won't make 151. CNW's Alden, IL depot was on the KD line between Kenosha, WI and Rockford, IL. Built in 1867, the line thru Alden was abandoned in 1939. Somehow, ... (more)

A former Conrail G.E. and a Bessemer and Lake Erie SD9 are being stripped down for usable parts. Photo taken with permission.

In February 1996, floods and related problems shut down every rail line into Portland, Oregon except one - the Portland & Western's ex-SP Tillamook, Newberg and Westside branches. A hot SP PTPCX d... (more)

Having discovered that P42DC #60 is dead (completely dead, can't get it to respond at all), an Amtrak switch crew who were putting together that nights #4 SWC, returns to the Redondo Roundhouse ar... (more)

After a seven year absence, Amtrak's sole-operating Great Dome car, the 1955-built "Ocean View," returned to a regularly scheduled Pacific Surfliner train as it joined the single-level H... (more)

Santa Fe’s all-Pullman Super Chief winds around the horseshoe curve at Blanchard, N.M. en route to its climb over Raton Pass to get out of New Mexico and dash on to Chicago. Five F units were lea... (more)

Boston PCC underground in Boston, Massachusetts? At the Boylston Station, there are 4 tracks, but only 2 active. The 2 inactive tracks are part of the Pleasant Street Incline, the southern access ... (more)

Looking down into the cab of SP 4449 from above, flash-backs from the movie "Tough Guys" come to mind as the 1941-built product of Lima heads west past the Lakeside yard - tender-forward - with t... (more)