One of thirteen BB40-9W waiting to move west then east to be exported to East Africa.

Around 10:30 am this day, CSX derailed 22 cars in the heart of town. Most of the town lost power and the local elementary school was evacuated due to no power and precautionary measures. This to d... (more)

An assortment of interesting items, including rotary snowplow 972551.

Damaged FEC 433 and TTX double-stack well car sit in the spur track north of the Pineda siding derailment site as a Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center with 11 satellites on bo... (more)

Rails to oblivion- Conrail freight GG-1s awaiting final disposition by the old Reading RR coal dock. The 4828 was built by Baldwin/PRR/Westinghouse in June, 1935. For an excellent photo of the o... (more)

A Mile Stone for the Pacific Imperial Railroad - [Vernal Equinox 2016 +1 Series] -Congratulations are in order on a job well done for the Pacific Imperial Railroad's first "Interchange Job... (more)

Looks like we're shoving a train through the water in the flooded Reeseville Marsh. If the water didn't get into the traction motors you were OK. The guys in the Hi-Rail kept a keen watch on every... (more)

Pan Am Railways FP9As PAR-1 and -2 head westbound through Buckland, MA during a 0-degree F rare winter run of the Pan Am Railway office car special train on Sunday, February 14, 2016. The train w... (more)

"Kingsbridge Substation"

A southbound welded rail train destined for the Long Island Railroad makes its way to Oak Point Yard. The train is stretched out along the east banks of ... (more)

A fusee burns in the street as a a Canton crew uses a pair of engines in the new paint scheme to shove a cut of boxcars across S Haven St into the Overflo Warehouse.

THE final D&H train to operate south of Albany, New York on CP's final day of ownership of the South End was fittingly appropriate with D&H lightning stripe-painted GP38-2 7303 hauling a string of... (more)

Canadian National train No. 485, with welded rail up front, passes Windy Point west of Devona, Alberta, on August 5, 2016. Distant thunderstorms develop to the east of this “wide spot” in the Atha... (more)

Fatal Bumps and Bruises?

Sitting forlornly outside Amtrak's Beech Grove Shops is P42DC 66, damaged in a wreck involving a semi truck on February 19, 2016. This engine, wearing the ca... (more)

Yes that train is moving, but school has also just let out and the tracks are very much everyone's path back home. The crew was very careful and moved quite slowly.

In 1966, there were only two ways into remote Rock Creek Canyon, between Crater and Volcano on Rio Grande’s Craig Branch in northwestern Colorado. One was to hike along the track from the nearest ... (more)