Springtime lilacs are blooming in a roadside park as a southbound BNSF coal train passes an old water tank that once filled CB&Q steam locomotives with water at Gurley, Nebraska, on May 23, 2014.

This shot rather landed in my lap due to an errant merge onto the "A" route thru, as opposed to around, town. Thought I was done for, but the train maintained a delicate speed and I was... (more)

BNSF 1826 (SD40-2 in old school paint) sits in the engine servicing yard in Denver, Colorado.

In the 90s, Amtrak actually serviced a purpose. They ran trains and hauled some mail. Here, the Southwest Chief roars east at Stronghurst on the Chili Sub with a decent size train. Scanned Slide f... (more)

The CN usually keeps their executive train parts indoors at the Woodcrest Shops at Homewood. I took a tour back in 2012 and the 103 was parked out back with the cars. I am unsure the fate of the 1... (more)

Photography From Pollepel. One of the more famous landmarks in the Hudson River is Bannerman Island Arsenal on Pollepel Island near Fishkill, New York. One of the lesser photographed views ... (more)

UP 6966 shoves on the rear of a southbound manifest as it enters Tunnel #5 at Cliff.

Prowling in the street during the early morning hours, a YN2 pair leads 88 coal empties bound for Bailey Mine in Pennsylvania for loading and to eventually return to New Haven Power plant along th... (more)

A set of "Conrail Quality" EMD SD40-2's shove BAPI (Baltimore-Pittsburgh) up the Alleghenies.

DXC 5229 leads classmate 5310 across the Taramakau River at Jacksons with the outbound 'Tranz Alpine' service from Christchurch to Greymouth. Taken with a drone.

Clean Caboose On Home Rails | Rolling across a bridge at Lancaster, AR, the Arkansas & Missouri Railroad's passenger train heads north towards Springdale with newly-restored Frisco caboose ... (more)

Plant power for Alton Steel takes it easy on this beautiful afternoon. We have a pair of Gulf Coast Rail Services SW1200's and a GP9R that still wears Grand Trunk paint. The two SW1200's are forme... (more)

FEC 905's Sunday Edition featured Honoring our Veterans and two other motors. A MOW project is underway here.

UP 6275 leads a southbound MRVLB between tunnels 3 and 5 on the approach to Cliff.

The Lake Superior Railroad Museum had some switching to do so they fired up DMIR 332 (former D&NE 28) to do the job that needed to get done. Here they come over the hill from their home rail down ... (more)