From the side you can appreciate the ingenuity that went into creating the 'Galloping Goose' powered mover. Different car bodies were used depending on the unit and Rio Grande Southern No. 7 was ... (more)

In one of the halls of the National Museum of Scotland we find the 2nd oldest surviving locomotive in the world: the Wylam Dilly. It was built in 1815, and sister locomotive the Puffing Billy whic... (more)

Open doors days in the workplace of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke at Uzwil. The heavy 1 meter gauge, 0-8-0 fourcylinder compound cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 is finished after more the... (more)

No trains have passed this way recently!
In early March 2014, a 30-foot boulder came crashing down the mountainside above Minturn, Colorado, just west of milepost 301 on this famous Rio... (more)

Nothing has run on Tennessee Pass lately
Proof can be found looking down the main line just west of milepost 301 on this famous Rio Grande route that Union Pacific stopped operating in ... (more)

Blowin' Smoke

As I was driving home on US 22, I saw a billowing black cloud approaching at Ardenhiem. After a double take, I quickly turned the car around and went back to the local ... (more)

The face only a mother could love? Chicago Central GP-10 8190, which still shows the logo of the Illinois Central, is now owned by Locomotive Specialist in Waycross, Georgia. Photo taken with pe... (more)

"AMTK 132, comply with Procedure XH at MP 373.26" On Union Pacific rails, Procedure XH is issued for crossings "not working properly", which includes damaged gates. Here, Su... (more)

The skeletons of two EMD SD70M cabs, including the old cab from Union Pacific No. 4323, sit in a used parts supply outside the shop buildings at Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Li... (more)

On Wednesday, May 30, 2018, the Aberdeen, Carolina & Western Railroad, NC Operation Lifesaver, and NCDOT BeRailSafe and several other state agencies attended and witnessed a staged railroad crossi... (more)

The other Manhattan Skyline. With Amtrak returning to Grand Central Terminal, we finally get that chance to see the Empire State Building in the background. Amtrak Train 241 heads into the Mott Ha... (more)

163 years old steam locomotive

Built by Kitson, Thompson and Hewitson at Leeds, in England, in 1855 and owned by East Indian Railway Company on heritage run

Ex-GE B23-7 to Santa Fe (ATSF) cab #6409 in 1985 (serial no. 44085). Now is owned/operated by Geoterra Empreendimentos e Transportes Ltda (Minas Gerais, Brazil) cab #1008 under nickname DURVALINA... (more)

After gobbling up as much grain as he could between trains, a large black bear ducks into the woods again to allow the entrance of train A417 into the yard at Jasper East.

Steam rail motor # 93, built in 1908 in Swindon for the Great Western Railway, running in the Didcot Railway Center.