BNSF 9385 and BNSF 9337 cross the Famous Lytton Bridge as they haul 401's train to Coquitlam. Note, you can still see damage from the CP Coal train derailment under the BNSF 9337.

The fresh snow on alot of cold locomotives on the east side of NRE. The construction trailers are from the new yard building expansion on the IAIS and the steam in the air is from the Riverdale po... (more)

With a New Year's Day snow storm in full swing, residents of Hudson shovel as the CSXT B957 crew makes a heroic, near stall (round two) climb to 7th Street with two brutes and ten loads. What a ... (more)

The ever changing scene at Larrys. Today, Penn Central, SP, DMIR, NS, BLE, CNW, and many others await their fate.

The changing of the guard - A batch of BNSF Railway Dash 8-40CW diesels has been sold to Canadian National. These engines were shipped from Commerce (near Los Angeles), where they were in ... (more)

A westbound B&O manifest struggles around Turkey Foot curve and past the CPLs on October 21, 1979. Back then, it always fascinated me just how much tonnage B&O could tie on to two worn out Geeps.... (more)

Lightning races across the sky as the sound of thunder fills the air. The rain is coming down in sheets as I get soaked to the bone. A westbound has just rolled into Altoona and the EOTD can still... (more)

CN 2538 was one of two units wrecked when CN Q11451-06 derailed a few miles east of Rockyford, Alberta. The train hit a washed out section of track, derailing the units and 13 head end cars. Uni... (more)

C&O 614 pulling the Chessie Safety Express across the Hawks Nest Bridge deep in the New River Gorge of West Virginia in October of 1981.

The ditcher has made 2 passes thru this decent drift at the top of Alden hill with the wings out to push the snow back, now MofW had the crew back up about a mile to hit this drift at 40 mph to cl... (more)

The Monday Wednesday Friday operations on the Everett Railroad Co. finds freight runs on the ex PRR's Morrison's Cove Secondary which then became the Allegheny Southern Railway from Sept. 1982 to ... (more)

Dance with the trains

A pair of Milwaukee Road trains meet in the morning light on the Milwaukee trackage that ran alongside the CNW at the depot in Janesville. F7A's 79A and 76C with a freight heads west out of the 5... (more)

I recently came across several old family photos of a Soo Line wreck that occurred back on September 6, 1922. It appears that Soo Line #2701 ran right into the rear of Soo #2115, totaling it and t... (more)