A hard to catch street running move in Clearwater

Z646 with ADBF 822 leading in its brilliant new paint scheme, rounds a curve through a tunnel of yellow leaves on a perfect fall day in Lansing, MI. Both units are new power for the Jackson & Lan... (more)

IHB 4012 approaches CP Gibson with a Westbound manifest.

CSXT 6424 is leading a local as it passes through Troy Ohio

"Dinky Swap"
When the venerable Arrow IIIs that operate on the Princeton Branch are due for maintenance or suffer an all-too-common failure an extra crew must be called to sw... (more)

The local pops out of the woods with some tank car loads from the refineries on its way back to Butler.

Changing times: CSX local freight L020 (ex B761) splits the old NYC searchlights on the Carman Sub. These signals are short on time as new "vador" signals can be seen to the left. The Ca... (more)

The local returns from Karns City with some tank car loads from the refineries.

The sun has just come up and illuminates the power in the Union Pacific's North Yard, including UP 1357, an ex DRGW GP40-2.

CSX freight R206 rolls across the bridge that spans the Big Sandy River and then drops the track back to ground level at Big Sandy Junction in Catlettsburg, Kentucky. It's a dreary Saturday mornin... (more)

The Alaska Railroad was where the interest in trains started for me. A return trip in 2014, my first time back to Alaska in 27 years, found some of the old engines were still around. 3005 used to... (more)

Despite record snow-pack in BC and the Northwest US, Spring rains melted the snow too soon, then fall fires and the driest September on record has drained the rivers. Ridership on the Rocky Mounta... (more)

GP40-2 8018 and GP40-2(W) 8013 depart from Kamloops and head east on the Shuswap Sub with Rocky Mountaineer's "First Passage West" tour train.

FEC work train AFW2 returns to the Fort Pierce yard after a day of unloading ballast on the new Brightline double track. It is seen here passing a newly constructed section of track on the south e... (more)