ICONIC   Burlington's sloped nose, stainless steel "Silver Pilot"

From the Dziobko collection, photographer unknown. This is a PRR display set up in Harrisburg, featuring T1 5548. These greyhounds were built for fast passenger service, used primarily in lines ... (more)

VIA 25 at a good clip passing the 514,s loco,s parking spur.

We ran across the southbound mixed train behind K2a 129 waiting at Luray on our way home from Roanoke. The mixed was in the hole for a northbound freight that sped through behind a Y6b. The soft l... (more)

The first of the class J 4-8-4s pulls upgrade with the overnight POCAHONTAS from Cincinnati and Colombus for Norfolk.

J 603 rolls downgrade with a complete streamlined set of equipment on the POWHATAN ARROW bound for Cincinnati. This is the 4-8-4 featured in O. Winston Link's long recording of train 42 at Rural R... (more)

The final running of series 0 EMU - the first high speed rail in the world.

VIA 25 loses many passengers at this Québec,s suburb 20 minutes before reaching the end of its trip at Palais station.

The prototype High Speed Train Driving car, no. 41 001 on display at the National Railway Museum at York.

An EMD intercity failure ends its days at age 10 downgraded to commuter service, not a good application of a train with few and narrow doors. There are actually three additional RI trains in the d... (more)

Westbound at Malvern, Amtrak Metroliner 885 finds itself in Philadelphia commuter service during the 1983 SEPTA Regional Rail strike. Note the crowd of raincoat and hat-wearing commuters disembar... (more)

One more turbotrain at speed, around 120 MPH, scaring me to death. Don't try this at home.click here.

A Turbo set rests between assignments at Spadina.