A warm summer evening sunset burns in the sky over the Mississippi Gulf Coast and CSX’s New Orleans & Montgomery Subdivision. Here CSX long distance local L800 is framed crossing the Pascagoula ... (more)

Acela from Boston flies through Astoria in Queens on its way to Penn Station.

CSX train R258 eases through Logan,WV with fresh loads from Rum Creek bound for export at Newport News,VA.

Montana Rail Link’s ML crosses Austin Creek Trestle at Skyline, Montana, on September 12, 2002. A trio of MRL SD45s and F45 No. 391 (off line) power the freight operating from Missoula to Laurel... (more)

GP18 and GP35 team-up to power the westbound local. GP18 178 was the last diesel put into service by an independent CofG before the Southern takeover in June 1963.

Full Mooned At EMD. At blue hour on January 28, 2021, EMDX 70 (SD70ACe) sits at the Progress Rail/EMD LaGrange facility in McCook, Illinois as the moon rises in the background. This locomot... (more)

In a scene reminiscent of the once mighty Pittsburgh steel industry, J&L #58 maneuvers into position beside hot metal car #822 for a night photo shoot. Built in Pittsburgh in 1937 by the HK Porte... (more)

Led by BNSF GE ES44AC No. 6177, a westbound BNSF coal train crosses the Clark Fork at Noxon, Montana on February 13, 2024. This scenic Montana Rail Link main line is now BNSF’s MRL Subdivision o... (more)

Triple Header. On November 12, 2023, Canadian National Railway Company Box Motor 6714 (née-Canadian Northern 604, Z-1a, GE, 1917) was moved from its place on the display track near North R... (more)

SP train 70, The Coaster, is on the move near Glendale California at 40 MPH, with 13 cars, in 1940. Otto's trusty 1935 Ford V-8 sedan is visible at left. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collectio... (more)

Five Montana Rail Link EMD six-axle locomotives, used as a helper set on Bozeman Pass, head downgrade back to Livingston glinting the setting sun on October 10, 2005. Westbound trains get plenty o... (more)

A super fresh Virginian heritage unit leads manifest NS 119 west over Coopers Trestle along the Pokey

Union Pacific SD40-2 1592 (marked as a "D40-2" on the cab) sits in the snow at Hoffman Yard, awaiting its next call to duty. Built by EMD in December 1979 as Union Pacific 3645. (Saint... (more)

Cumberland Mine Railroad locomotive #1 pulled up and spotted and is in position ready to begin loading.

Built 4/1945