It's a passenger train! It's a freight train! It's ... a 30-car mixed train! Amtrak #3, the westbound Southwest Chief, departs Fullerton, California, on July 13th, 2003 - just shy... (more)

Thunderstorm rolled to the North while I was out shooting trains last night. Captured this shot of lightning from the Norfolk Southern Reading Yard last night. Photo by Shawn A Leightcap

Kp4 (or P24) is a narrow gauge (750 mm) steam (0-4-0) locomotive, which was designed at 1941 by "Kolomensky Zavod" in USSR and built by Poland for railways of Soviet Union after S... (more)

Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4014 is finally heading home to Cheyenne, Wyoming, for restoration to operable condition. Train PWCYR2 28 (Passenger, West Colton Yard CA to Yermo CA) departed West Colton ... (more)

Through a forest of telephone and former catenary poles, MILW 169 East crosses the Northern Pacific at Sinclair, Montana on Aug. 14, 1979, about 8 miles east of Deer Lodge. NP’s route of the “Nor... (more)

A switching move didn't turn out as planned and now the local crew has to resort to poling to shove this car clear of the switch and free their locomotive.

BNSF yard job 711 shoved track 1231 "blind" (no one on the point or in view of the point) cut off not realizing they had shoved seven car lengths past the clearance point, through a derail (which ... (more)

Closeup of Export engines entering Enola yard. (Brazil VLI -Valor da Logstica Interada )

The entire New Royal Palm train is silhouetted against the morning sun as Southern 630 leads NS 957 into Kentucky for the trip to Danville.

Norfolk Southern and Amtrak equipment is staged for tomorrow, October 12's, 'All Aboard Altoona' event. Both Amtrak's and Norfolk Southern's 'Veterans' locomotives will be present as well as Amtra... (more)

This might be the most ornate rail yard entrance in the world!

General Electric's Tier 4 ES44AC at Keenesburg, CO. The demonstrator unit and GECX Test Car #100 are bound for the TTC Test Center in Pueblo, CO.

VIA Rail’s train No. 2, the Canadian, rolls eastbound with 21 cars through Robertson’s Curve at Swan Landing, Alberta, on the afternoon of July 7, 2014. The spectacular Brule Range is softly refle... (more)

P42 #145 is in the paint booth wearing a coat of primer just before receiving its Heritage Phase III scheme. As a member of the Amtrak 40th Anniversary Core Team and co-designer of the Heritage s... (more)

A trio of class units, F7 800, GP38 2000, and U36C 3600 sit under the sanding tower in the Erwin yard on the Clinchfield RR. Its evident that a journey 50 yards to the south to the wash rack would... (more)