A early evening Amtrak Keystone, led by No. 642, the Veterans Unit, barrels down the NEC passing Holmesburg Junction Station in the midst of a December snow storm bound for Trenton, NJ and eventu... (more)

Freight train of TRANSAP railway with EMD rebuilt SD50 No. D-3501 leading the train, former Union Pacific EMD GP50, route Barrancas (San Antonio) - Los Lirios (near Rancagua city), loaded with sul... (more)

An old F59 trots along the beach. Note the Operation Life Saver banner on the light pole.

This One Stung a Little

On a winter trip to Vermont, we headed east from Rutland in hopes of intercepting the Green Mountain train coming from Bellows Falls. We made it to Spring L... (more)

Talgo 463 "Mare Nostrum" Montpellier 08h00 - Cartagena 20h36

Bi-mode (electro/battery) locomotive Eea 936 # 131 is pulling 4 lowfloor cars with a brand new 1 meter gauge "Tango" train from StadlerRail for the Appenzeller Bahnen (AB) along the pond at Riedt ... (more)

We're stopped on the eastward main track at Voltz in a heavy Wisconsin fog. Voltz was a couple of sidings off the eastward and westward mains just a couple of miles west of Watertown with power sw... (more)

The engineer for Amtrak's Winter Park Ski Train climbs aboard and gets ready to head into the 6.2 mile-long Moffat Tunnel on the journey back to Denver's Union Station. Denver is the only major A... (more)

CSX used its interchange with the Delaware & Hudson in Buffalo as a major outlet to the northeast and New England. After the D&H was jettisoned by Guilford, the New York, Susquehanna & Western was... (more)

A local resident of Thomson, Illinois who lives near the ex-Milwaukee Road trackage has a restored bay window caboose on display in his backyard.

The March 27, 2018 Green Mountain train 263 is seen crossing Parker Hill Road in Rockingham, Vermont, on the way from Rutland to Bellows Falls, Vermont. The train is led by Vermont Railway SD70M-... (more)

A pair of Rock Island RS3s thunk across the diamond at Pullman Junction on the South Side of Chicago with a transfer run back in 1969. This was a great place for train-watching for this East Coast... (more)

The Thunder Rolls! A westbound BNSF manifest screams west thru Tunnel 29, as a rare quick moving morning thunderstorm moves on my position... The front of the train twists into a 10 degree... (more)