Trout Brook Turn. Crew members from the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum turn their Locomotive #9 on the little turntable at Trout Brook Station, assisted by a couple of pa... (more)

Crossing the state line a WB covered hopper train is squiggling through the mountains. Photo by Jim Satterwhite.

Y131 crosses the NS Bear Creek Running Track, as it enters the Port of Baltimore Seagirt Marine Terminal.

NYAR GP38-2's 268 & 261 pushing Darth Vader(nickname for LI 4230 Harasco Ditcher/spreader) plow through the snow at R Block in Jamesport. Winter Storm Keenan the plow worked from Ronkonkoma to Gre... (more)

Mountain Monsters: As an Alco fan, few things compare to hunting the big Centuries. Alas, they are far rarer these days than they have ever been. The one place where you know you will encou... (more)

Norfolk Southern’s CNJ Heritage SD70ACe leads train 928 past the former D&H station in Fort Edward. Snow had fallen the day before making for this perfect winter scene complete with wreaths in t... (more)

Dramatic Daylighting. On February 26, 2024, Amtrak ALSTOM Acela 2 Train Set 8 (AMTK 2146-2118) operated as train 844-26 from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Boston, Massachusetts. This daylig... (more)

AMTK 10004 (Viewliner Inspection Car) provides Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner a great view as the California Zephyr runs through Plainview on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

BNSF 2530 (GP39-3) takes the siding in Longmont, Colorado and will move some wood cars to a client in Superior.

SP 4449 has arrived in Wenatchee, WA with the American Freedom Train in early November 1975. The engine has been placed at the locomotive facilities for fuel/water before continuing west over Stev... (more)

AT&SF train number 19, The Chief, is departing Raton New Mexico at 10 MPH on March 26th 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Duo of CSX switchers shuffle tank cars between tracks in and out of Port Reading Yard.

Twilight of The Coal Burner

After 143 years of near continuous use of coal-burning power on the Silverton Branch of the Denver and Rio Grande Western, fireman John Hillier thro... (more)

A pair of "Lackawanna" E8s visited NJ Transit's Hoboken Terminal as part of the 2001 Hoboken Festival event. These former PRR E8s were painted as Lackawanna units by the Central New Yor... (more)

With the Sangre De Christo Mountains serving as a backdrop, the AAPRCO San Juan Limited ascends the west slope of Veta Pass.