On May 21st an ethanol train plunged into the Little Cedar River. The former IC&E SD40 (in the foreground) was damaged beyond repair and scrapped. The CSX AC4400CW in the background received heavy... (more)

The BN local from Superior arrives in Ashland on a rainy fall day. Too bad the Ashland Ore Dockers class of 1980 decided to re-letter the bridge and the classic NP Monad at the start of their seni... (more)

Inside the cab of the monster: C&O 1604. The engineer that cracked the throttle of this locomotive started in motion twelve 67-inch drive wheels that delivered over 7,300 horsepower to the rails.... (more)

Moving freight with steam - in 2013! After many years of sporadic activity, Strasburg Rail Road is again in the freight business. Here's 4-8-0 475 spotting cars at Strasburg, where the freight lo... (more)

Fresh out of the shop from Class-A overhaul and addition of a third porthole window to better represent the 1900 of early CP history.

Next stop: Pilatus. While the left EMU has just hit the first switch point of the Pilatus station, the right one (Bhe1/2 29 with [unfortunately] an advertisment paint scheme) has to do some more c... (more)

Disrupting the silence in downtown Nitro at the early morning hour of 2am, a severe thunderstorm rolls across the Kanawha Valley, bringing with it an impressive lightning show. The single yard eng... (more)

GP40 3684 was the first GP40 purchased by the Baltimore & Ohio. Repainted in 2006, it is displayed in the museum parking lot at the head of a short freight train.

Amtrak in the Feather River Canyon! Amtrak 11 was making just another ordinary trip south through Oregon when the news came in; a Union Pacific manifest train had derailed just north of Dun... (more)

A combination of EMD and GE locomotives leads a 589 train through the west side of Franklin Canyon.

Delaware Lackawana train SBG17 rolls West past Bridge 60 on it's way to Taylor yard on 06-17-13. The train is being pulled by a C420 and four RS3s in 2013 who would have ever guessed this could ha... (more)

An American Express wrapped Newark AirTrain passes an United Express Embraer regional jet outside the windows of Terminal C at Liberty Airport in a pouring rain.

Delaware Lackawana train SBG17 blasts out of Mt Pocono, Pa. with four RS3s and and a C420 in charge on 06-17-13.

Arriving exactly when it should be departing, the Empire Builder pulls through the switches off of the BNSF Midway Subdivision at St. Anthony Junction into the Minnesota Commercial A Yard i... (more)

The Amtrak Silver Star snakes its way out of the nation's capital with the Capitol building in the background. Seeing the monuments pass by is my favorite part of a train ride through DC just sou... (more)