During a break between storms, some nice evening sun illuminates Cascades 507 and Mt Rainier, in the north end of the Puyallup Valley.

Heave! EBT shop crew members lean hard on the push poles of the Orbisonia Turntable as they turn Mikado #15 to align her with the service track....and give us a rear-quarter view of their l... (more)

Foggy East Broad Top: The "Armstrong" Turntable. East Broad Top crews unlock their manual "Armstrong" Turntable as they prepare to rotate Mikado #15 onto the servicing t... (more)

A classic CPL guides a southbound grain train as it breaks through a quiet early morning.

Three Cascade green Burlington Northern locomotives pull BNSF train No. 20 eastbound along the frozen banks of the Clark Fork between Bearmouth and Drumond, Montana, on February 8, 1997. At this p... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s MLAUMIS (Laurel to Missoula manifest freight) edges the calm Missouri River in Lombard Canyon at Lombard, Montana, on September 22, 2009. Powering today’s freight is a pair of ... (more)

"Amtrak Training Train at 138th Street" Amtrak's Training train heads north past 138th Street Grand Concourse on Metro North's Hudson Line during the last minutes of daylight in ... (more)

A pair of Conrail GG1s hum through the station at Elizabeth, NJ, on the point of a southbound freight. Two years later, Conrail would end electric freight operations and these veteran motors would... (more)

A north bound UP intermodal drops down and around Allard's horseshoe curve in the late afternoon light of a perfect spring day.

The weekly Pan Am Southern Bellows Falls, VT to Portland, ME limestone slurry train is seen rolling through the New England Central Railroad Bellows Falls tunnel with MEC ex-CSXT B40-8 5933 and 59... (more)

CNW 821 is on Milwaukee Road tracks as it passes thru Sparta, WI at dusk in April of 1976. Bob Ferge Kodachrome from my collection.

VL80S-2150 electric 25 kV AC locomotive (max power - 6520 kW (9780 kW in 3 sections), max speed - 100 km/h) heading freight train. VL80S is the most numerous electric locomotive in the world (if i... (more)

Amtrak California Pacific Surfliner Train 777 to San Luis Obispo rolls westbound along the Ventura Coast at sunset.

ALCO Historical and Technical Society's former Nacionales de Mexico (N. de M.) 4-8-4 No. 3028 Niagara, built by ALCO in 1946, sits on the deadline at the New Hope & Ivyland Railroad pending dispos... (more)