Every employee's nighmare --- derailed tank cars of LPG exploding and burning. When will it end? AT&SF derailment at Love, Ariz. on March 16, 1977, 65 miles east of Parker on the Parker Distri... (more)

A question I’d had at the back of my mind for many years was whether it might be possible to flash one of the Midland Line viaducts. While there was always the lingering fear that after a great de... (more)

Happy Birthday, Norfolk Southern! Thirty years ago today, NS was formed with the merger of the Norfolk and Western and Southern Railway. Later, on June 1, 1999, the Conrail acquisition led to an ... (more)

17 CEFX former SOO Line SD60's stored at Norris Yard in Irondale, AL. waiting to be scrapped. Photo takin with Permision

The U ROOEVE enters the fill and begins its drop back down to river level at the John Day Dam on the Columbia River.

Just minutes earlier, this back street had been a hive of activity with a wedding in full swing, carpenters using the tracks as their workshop, street hairdressers, shoe stalls, butchers and resid... (more)

Freight train arrives from Villach at 'Oberfalkenstein Brücke' The Tauern Railway (German: Tauernbahn) is an Austrian railway line between Schwarzach-Sankt Veit in the state of Salzburg and Spitt... (more)

Almost finished new paint scheme on former CN SD40-2W #5342.

As far as I know, this is the first time a derailment has happened here in Mt. Airy. The cause has not been ascertained at the time of this photo upload. Do know that it was a Northbound NS 118 ... (more)

Picture taken with permission Hy-Rail crosses a long tunnel, greetings to all!

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy's Nebraska Zephyr, having just departed Galesburg, IL, heads towards a late evening arrival in Aurora followed by a trek on the Racetrack before arriving back at Uni... (more)

2:05 am, the GLC ONTN has returned to Owosso, but with no other tracks open in the yard for the locomotives to run around and get back to the terminal, the crews are forced to tie up the locomotiv... (more)

Slip-way Buczyniec is a only place in all over the world where is usable track to move ships and yachts in order to overcome the vertical distance between one canal and another.

STOP-Obstruction Ahead That's what the sign the NS supervisors are carrying away said. To test the crew of the southbound TVA coal train to see if they followed the speed restriction, the s... (more)

Gotcha! You can tell who's the railfan in this shot as a Photo Charter organized by Clint Renegar with a Southern and Norfolk & Western GP30 duo passes a couple enjoying a beautiful Summer ... (more)