The daily Escalante Western train returns to the Plains-Escalante Generating Station with coal from the Lee Ranch Mine, located near Grants, New Mexico, The generating station, mine, and train are... (more)

Santa Fe 5019 heads West over the flyover at Frost past a couple of Joshua Tree's

A DWP detour train was running on DMIR trackage near Alborn

This was a foul day, overcast, cold but what the hey, there were Alcos kicking cars and of course L&N's version of "stealth".

A burned out SD40 sits at the shop waiting for work.

Train 909 tackles the hill near MP447 west of Trout Lake in winter 1985. SD40 744 leads GP30 703 and a GP38-2 west towards Gladstone. With the F's and U-boats long gone off the SOO roster this qua... (more)

Home sweet home for me in the late 1990s. Mableton, GA where I met some of my best friends in this hobby. Not via Facebook or some other heads up group; the internet was barely a player in our r... (more)

NS exSouthern SD40 3170 and Southern GP30 2601 pose together at the old fuel rack area at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer NC following celebrations over the weekend for Nationa... (more)

Conrail train ENBA (Enola – Baltimore) has just entered the Northeast Corridor at Perryville, Maryland, and is approaching Havre de Grace. The massive bridge spans the Susquehanna River just nor... (more)

The Southern engs were set up for the Southern Railway Historical Association convention a great start for National Train Day at NCTM, Thanks everyone for the hard work to set this up.

A pair of Western Maryland SD40s shove against the caboose of a Chessie System freight as the sun drops, during rush hour in suburban DC.

The stars of the show on National Train Day. I'm really glad to hear the news today that 3170 is being donated to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. While I do wish she'd have stayed closer to ... (more)

Southern Railway 3170 and 2601 pull a short mixed freight out to the mains to head south as a farmer on his tractor pulls up and waves at the crew of 3170.