Wildfires illuminate the sky in the Shenandoah Valley as Norfolk Southern freight train 14Z heads north across the James River. Wildfires are extremally uncommon in the Valley, making this an extr... (more)

Westbound LOF 67, the Guadalupe Local, with Union Pacific SD70M No. 5119 leading, rolls along Seacliff Beach on a sunny afternoon.

Pee Dee River train 20 working the Domtar Paper Mill

A good number of BN's business car fleet was housed at the BN station in Minneapolis between uses back in 1973. Office car Red River poses at the end of a platform on a rainy day in March 1973, fe... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

Double heritage units the NS 8099 Southern and the NS 1069 Virginian lead the southbound Office Car Special from Maryland into West Virginia over the Potomac River. The OCS will eventually take ex... (more)

COUNCIL BLUFFS IA Sept 28 1979 — UP U30C 2955 awaits an assignment. GE built the unit (b/n 40960) in October 1976. Utahrails.net records that the 2955 “was the last U30C on UP, retired on 19 S... (more)

The 611 has just pulled her train onto the main in Goshen, VA and is beginning her afternoon excursion east to Staunton.

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

Loading the Final Cut of cars at Carter Roag mining company, we see a classic locomotive shoving the cut under the loadout. This will likely be one of the last trains to load at this mine for rhe ... (more)

Santa Fe’s QNYLA intermodal train, operating from New York to Los Angeles with Conrail, flies out of Chillicothe, Illinois, at 12:17 p.m. on December 8, 1990. Super Fleet GE B40-8W No. 503 and a... (more)

Our 2nd storm of the season started getting going Friday morning. By the time it ended Saturday night, most of Iowa is in pretty bad shape. It was an impressive storm with a decent amount of wind ... (more)

In 1976 SP borrowed some BN Locotrol Masters and slave cars in an early effort to institute unmanned helpers. The only testing I saw was on Beaumont Hill. Evidently it didn't work out. No compl... (more)

Maybe a tad off topic, but by definition a "passenger train," The MGM Grand-Bally's Monorail debuted in 1995, operating between the MGM Grand and Bally's hotels (which had been the MGM G... (more)

Lately old age and muscular dystrophy are making it hard to get out there and catch trains, so I've pretty much given up on it. However a parked train (or in this case a Jordan Spreader) is very e... (more)