Amtrak 352 and mates endure late winter weather at the famous Zephyr Pit south of Union Station. The 3 E8s are former Burlington/BN units, with conventional steam generators for handling Amtrak's ... (more)

TCRY 31 at a new trans-load facility west of Pecos, TX.

During the 2023 holiday season, Edaville pulled all its revenue passenger trains using steam power. The duties were shared between their own number 11 and Monson 3 which was on loan from Maine Nar... (more)

Minutes before a crew member will climb aboard and get 51 started for the day's work, it finishes its slumber in Mason City.

A BNSF yard job takes headroom towards the BRC as an eastbound suburban takes the signal at Cicero. In the foreground is the former Manufactures Junction Railway which lost its last customer some... (more)

Yes, this is Bliss just outside the fence at the Fort. I hope you've been to Bliss somewhere else 'cause this one ain't so much. WB mixed freight.

LIRR FL9ACs 301 and 300 on a test run with bi-levels approach Crugers station.

Northbound Amtrak No. 14, the Coast Starlight with Siemans ALC-42 No. 314 leading, crosses Padre Juan Canyon Road as it rolls through Faria Beach Coloney on the Santa Barbara Sub.

After the decision was made a few years ago to take track #2 out of service between RS tower and Berkeley run Junction, we now see the new regime of management trying to recover from pasts decisio... (more)

Curve Meets: Manifest train NS 18N and loaded coal train NS 590 race side by side one another, as they round the bend at Horseshoe Curve, as both trains prepare to enter into Altoona at daybreak.

Not too long into my day, Norfolk Southern’s Central of Georgia heritage unit greeted me on train 10K at Alto Tower in downtown Altoona.

SP 4-6-2 2447 and SP 4-6-0 2376 are in charge of SP train 72 at San Luis Obispo California in 1937. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

CN 3008 leads CN L572 under the arches in Taylor Michigan after completing its work at NS Oakwood yard. This will be the second CN Heritage unit to go under the arches. The other one that has made... (more)

After going missing in action for nearly two years, for PTC and other miscellaneous upgrades, the sole Chicago & NorthWestern painted locomotive left on a class one railroad, heads point on an int... (more)

A pair of Arcade & Attica GE centercabs make a shove move south as they pass through the alley on the backside of Main Street in Arcade, New York. Once the crew has their train put together, they ... (more)