New Orleans Sewer & Water Board homemade 'critter' with a Ford V-8 engine and a mechanical transmission, seen here in New Orleans in August 1973.

The two sections of the forest system at Covasna-Comandau are separated by an inclined plane first opened in 1886. The plane is entirely worked by gravity, the heavier loaded wagons pull up the e... (more)

This unit started life as a storage-battery electric (there were a number of these built between 1915 and 1930, mostly by GE and Westinghouse) working for Newport-News Shipbuilding. It was conver... (more)

Four trains are visible in this aerial that has Caliente in the upper left and Bealville in the upper right. The first of three southbounds is climbing above tunnel five south of Bealville; a sec... (more)

The tunnel 27 of the center line, drivers have to be good to stop here, as it too tighten the brake, stopping within, engulfing smoke, if they stop before the other hand, have no vision of the sig... (more)

End of the Cog Railway at top of Pikes Peak

Union Pacific's freight train from Hinkle, Oregon, to Roseville, California, passing under the former Southern Pacific signal bridge at North Cruzatte on moonlit night in the Oregon Cascades. The ... (more)

On the Romanian forestry railways it was very common to convert road vehicle into rail vehicles. This former Russian truck was used on the Comandau line.

This Wylie 'Fire Cart' was part of a lengthy group of maintenance of way machines working main #1 of Union Pacific's Provo Sub at Midvale, Utah.

At one of the highest elevations along UP's route over Donner Pass, the signal bridge at mile post 198 watches over a west bound freight about to enter Tunnel 42 at Andover.

Listen...can you hear it? It's getting closer...... There's nothing like being at 7000 ft elevation in total darkness and silence and seeing and hearing a heavy freight grinding up ... (more)

I am impressed by the live broadcast of FIFA World Cup matches provided here in a train terminal. The final match of Spain vs. Holland has just finished and the closing ceremony is in progress.

Grand Central Terminal, New York City's jewel box of a train station, sits in the middle of skyscrapers. It is as about as perfect an American example of the French Beaux-Arts style of architectur... (more)

Dark skies, cold temps, snowy mountains, and yet, Spring time is only a week away? Union Pacific freight moves up the Cascade grade out of Eugene on the way to Klamath Falls. The throttles are w... (more)