With cars continuing to be shoved over the hump on this summer afternoon, onlookers take photos of this Milwaukee Road F-unit and series of freight cars on display during a company open house. No... (more)

Northbound Gulf, Mobile & Ohio's train 4 The Limited led by EMD E7A 100 and E8A 100A, makes a stop at the Granite City station, Illinois. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer list... (more)

Southern Serves the South – Including Toronto!

With part of the Toronto skyline and the base of the CN Tower visible through the fog, Southern FP7 6141waits to take its train bac... (more)

MKT northbound (railroad east) is running on Rock Island tracks at Holdenville, Oklahoma, in July 1978. The primary traffic for this train was scrap metal. F3A 70-A leads the charge, wearing a c... (more)

Excursion thru Niles Canyon and over Altamont To Sacramento with SP's first passenger Diesel/

The Royal Canadian Pacific arrives at Boston Bar for a crew change.

The Canadian has just arrived at Lake Louise after ascending Kicking Horse Pass and exiting British Columbia. The consist is still in winter mode with only 7 cars. Note the lack of activity at the... (more)

Considered an ugly duckling by many, I'm quite the fan of the BL2 body lines, and especially like the black and gold of the Monon scheme on them. Here #32 sits behind the shops of the Kentucky Rai... (more)

The long out of service wye was restored to use for the sole purpose of turning the business train here today. I can imagine this was a somewhat stressful endeavor for those directly involved, bu... (more)

When Conrail first decided upon blue and white as its corporate image, quite a few units were painted without the correct lettering, and without the wheel-on-rail “can opener” logo. Outlying s... (more)

Welcome to 2017! While the Class 1 Railroads continue standardizing everything, there are plenty of unique shortlines worth your time as my wife steps out to grab a shot of the KJRY FP9's.

A former SP geep with an intact light package awaits work at a mill south of Corvallis.

Former BN executive F is covered in snow while sister BN-3 powers Holiday Special

As a blizzard provides the "Polar" ambience, the West Coast Railway Heritage Park's 1952-vintage FP7 rests on the station track as a trainload of happy children disembarks from the long ... (more)

The Monday after the Santa Train of the Keokuk JunctionRailway, the B unit is back in the rotation after more shop work at LaHarpe which included replacing the auxiliary generator. Even at a crawl... (more)