Sun, snow and red engines ....

two power moves meet at Franklin Park while another jetplane takes off from near O'Hare.

Passing the torch. One of the stark realities of steam railroad operations is that most of the men who serviced and ran the locomotives in actual service are gone now. Even the first coupl... (more)

The eastward CPL signal at Grasshopper, WV stands guard after a night of heavy, wet snow.

Rail maintainers work on a crossover while being surrounded by trains that are being built in the busy and dangerous Willard Terminal

Big Hook in action. With the snow intensity picking up, Nevada Northern's 100-ton steam powered wrecking crane commences lowering one truck of a derailed hopper back onto the iron. The Wre... (more)

We are standing on the access road just west of Randolph Tunnel near Doe Gully, WV. Back in an oppressively hot July, eastbound No. 376 encountered a sun kink just west of Randolph Tunnel. The h... (more)

DRGW 487 is rounding Windy Point and is now in full assault of the final few hundred yards of 4%. If all these cars had been loads this train would have been quite near the tonnage limits for the... (more)

Winter ops in the Ely Yard. A light snow breaks out in the yard at East Ely as hostlers prepare the beefy Consolidation 93 for a hopper drag out to Keystone. In the background, the line's ... (more)

Former CN Pointe-Saint-Charles (PSC) caboose 79879 wears a fresh coat of paint and is apparently being used as public restrooms in a park of the city of Plessisville, a point of the former GTR-bui... (more)

Preparing the hook. Members of the Nevada Northern Wrecking Crew scurry around Steam Crane A as they prepare her for a late afternoon operation to re-rail a hopper that has become a victim ... (more)

Preparing the hook. With shop mechanics already in the process of making her ready, the operating crew of Nevada Northern Wrecking Crane A (lower left) huddles to discuss the plan for an af... (more)

A journal box on A&M (ex MP) work car at Springdale, AR on Oct. 13, 1999.

Amtrak's heritage display train with RPCU (F40PH body) #406 on the north end of the consist is seen in the early morning hours before crowds would gather for the Norfolk Southern heritage event. ... (more)

DRGW 487 has rounded Windy Point and is now in full assault of the final few hundred yards of 4%. Other than the paved highway this could have easily passed for 1955. Photo Charters such as Lerr... (more)