Washington Eastern Railroad, the new (late 2018) operator of the former NP/BN Central Washington Branch, sent a westbound train of empty grain hoppers from Cheney to Coulee City, Washington on Sun... (more)

In the spring of 1983, the Baltimore and Ohio ran a special train for employees and their families from Baltimore to Point of Rocks, Md., and back. The train ran outbound on the Capital and Metro... (more)

A two-unit pusher set, behind former DL&W F-3 No. 6351, idles in front of the former Erie Railroad depot in Susquehanna, Pa., awaiting the next eastbound train needing an assist across the Gulf Su... (more)

MRL's Night Gas, westbound, is shown at Arlee, Montana, behind two SD-70ACes, and the two GP-9s. The latter two are being returned to Paradise, Montana, for weekday work on the local based there.

Montana Rail Link's official train, The Silver Cloud (so named for the ex-Rock Island business car on the rear of the consist), crosses the Clark Fork River at Bonner, Montana, en route to picking... (more)

Western Maryland Alco FAs No. 302 and 303 formed a two unit helper set that had assisted a steam-powered passenger special from Baltimore over WM's Jacks Mountain grade east of Hagerstown. The 30... (more)

Amtrak's "Station to Station" special, running as CSX train P931, hurries through Brunswick, Md. westbound.

The view from the dome: the eastbound Amtrak Capitol Limited descends Sand Patch Grade on a bright fall morning in 1985. Up front are a pair of Amtrak F40PH diesels.

Two high-nose Norfolk Southern veteran GP38-2 locomotives, equipped for remote control operation, shove a long cut of cars into the north (railroad west) end of Enola Yard.

A short northbound Gettysburg and Northern train approaches the south end of Mt. Holly Springs, Pa, behind PREX FP9A No. 1755, a veteran of the Algoma Central. Trailing is PREX 1001, a Paducah GP... (more)

Metro North ran a passenger special for the Danbury (Conn.) Railway Museum across its former New Haven Maybrook Line in conjunction with the opening of the museum. The westbound train is crossing... (more)

Eastbound EL manifest HF-98 is about to get an assist across the Gulf Summit grade by a pair of F7A pushers based in Susquehanna, Pa. Both the lead locomotive and caboose are pre-merger Erie Railr... (more)

Erie Lackawanna Train no. 1, the westbound Phoebe Snow, is ready to depart Hoboken for Scranton, Binghamton, Elmira, Jamestown, Youngstown and points west for Chicago.