In 2009, the oldest American railroad operating under its original charter, the Long Island Rail Road Company, celebrated its 175th anniversary. Although the actual day was April 24th, the railro... (more)

The ABBB set of Cliffs Erie locomotives and 24 cars of chips and fines pokes their head out the west portal of Cramer Tunnel as they continue inland from Taconite Harbor back to CLiffs Erie proper... (more)

The Amtrak display train from the 2012 Railfest at Steamtown in Scranton arrives back at Rensselaer.

Gorgeous winter morning in the wilderness as light engine move extra SOO 6026 East, approaches the Quebec/Maine border near Boundary.

The effects of Hurricane Sandy. Three weeks ago, much of the LIRR's Long Beach Branch was flooded by the hurricane's massive storm surge, leaving the railroad's substations and other infrastructu... (more)

Running around its train in the bottoms of old Prairie du Chien along the Mississippi. The sand is for the oil industries.

More than two months after the GLC ONTN put 13 loaded sand cars on their sides north of Owosso, a pair of GLC GP38-2's pull 3 partially wrecked hoppers back into Owosso and to the shop areas to be... (more)

On the tracks of Phoebe Snow. The special equipment move for display at Steamtown's Railfest, lead by the Phase I heritage and AMTK 406, is about to duck under the NY Rt 7 overpass as it accelerat... (more)

Amtrak 156 and 406 lead 5 Amtrak cars and 4 private cars NB on the D&H at the Rt 28 overpass just north of Oneonta. Train is returning from display at Railfest in Scranton and has charter passenge... (more)

Ch-P 402, fresh out of the LaJunta paint shop, works an extra freight to Chihuahua. This is one of four former Santa Fe passenger units (three cabs and a booster) sold to the Ch-P in late 1970 for... (more)

Ch-P 403 and Santa Fe 18B on an e/b freight switching at Cuauhtemoc. These are two of four former Santa Fe passenger units (three cabs and a booster) sold to the Ch-P in late 1970 for service on t... (more)

When United States Steel ceased movement of crude ore by rail at their Minntac iron ore mine in northeastern Minnesota they sold off their large fleet of locomotives. This DM&IR train was the larg... (more)

Saratoga & North Creek ran an equipment move to take the newly restored E8 SLRG 518 and an old business car to North Creek after CP delivered the equipment to Saratoga.The E8 is an ex CNW and ex M... (more)

On Saturday May 19th, the SNC ran a special move to bring the IC inspired E8 SLRG 518 and an ex Columbus & Greenville business car from the CP interchange at Saratoga to North Creek. The ex CNW E8... (more)

Fifty years ago, the meandering "Ma and Pa" could be described as "legendary". Abandonment of segments had reduced the line by half, yet enough remained to sustain passenger extras. Here, in Augus... (more)