A green signal lights up as a westbound coal train is about to pass.

Amtrak's Starlight arrives at Oakland with a beautiful observation on the rear.

A modern cupola caboose brings up the rear of an eastbound BN manifest at Tuscor, MT.

At sunset on the Santa Fe's Needles District, a hot pig train hustles away from us toward a major climb at Ash Hill.

View into the control room of the Centro d'Esercizio Pollegio (CEP) (operation center Pollegio) of the SBB. From here, the Gotthard line from the borders to Italy, via the mountain and Base Tunnel... (more)

The white-hatted foreman is down on his haunches to better scrutinize the progress of tie renewal on eastbound No. 1 Track. Tie-handling machine No. 1041's crew is manipulating some freshly creos... (more)

Fallen flag boxcars in pre-graffiti days lead Conrail's N5B caboose No. 22874 over the old stone arch bridge at the confluence of the Chickies (or Chiques) Creek and the Susquehanna River. The 22... (more)

Four years ago yesterday, the Oregon Rail Heritage Center opened up in Portland, Oregon, officially giving the public an legal interactive setup to view the city's three steam engines in one locat... (more)

A Southern Railway derrick assigned to Asheville waits to see if it will ever be called to duty.

Oakdale Tennessee was a division point of the second and third districts of the Southern now NS CNO&TP. Here we find the conductor of a northbound ballast train about to board his caboose.

With the loadout supports now replaced and the derailed coal hoppers removed, work has begun on new track that was displaced by the derailment. Several loaded hoppers were pulled, literally, thru ... (more)

The dispatcher crosses over a Santa Fe eastbound at Sandcut from Track Two to Track One. As soon as the SP's conductor is finished with his roll-by, the SP will proceed down the hill into Bakersfi... (more)

Overhead view of Amtrak's Beech Grove shops, showing Trim Shop #1 and #2 and the transfer table in between them.

Drone flown with permission from Beech Grove safety and Amtrak PD. Please ... (more)

At sunset, a bay window caboose punctuates the end of an eastbound Western Pacific manifest.

One of Santa Fe's ubiquitous cupola cabooses brings up the rear and of an eastbound at tunnel 2.