In what I can say is one of the more bizarre train photos I’ve ever gotten….Westbound NS 19W crawls by the completely ablaze former Mingo Lime and Lumber building in downtown Williamson, West ... (more)

CSX's newest, yet unofficial "heritage unit", is ChessSX GP40-2 6914, seen here resting on a humid Georgia summer night at the small Wyvern Yard near Cartersville, Georgia. Unknown tagge... (more)

Tree down! On the last run with freight cars in tow for the Elk River railroad, crews were faced with several obstacles to complete the work. After gathering a siding of storage cars, they were st... (more)

Though not a classic mixed freight like from the pages of Lucius Beebe's classic book Mixed Train Daily, it is a reminder of those times. This train is also a sad one as the Fillmore and Western h... (more)

SMASH!!! The B&O Railroad Museum staged a controlled crash between an automobile and train, complete with a demonstration by the Baltimore City Fire Department of extricating bodies from th... (more)

CSX Local B761 fights through some brush after dropping a couple open hoppers on the American Rock Salt track in Troy, NY. For many years, CSX delivered road salt using this track, however trucks... (more)

The Presidential Car "United States." Here's a nicely lit view of David Kloke's replica of President Abraham Lincoln's private railway car "United States". This car was built for the US Mi... (more)

A US Army soldier can be seen standing guard over the casket of President George H. W. Bush through the rear door of Union Pacific heritage fleet car number 5769 as the train makes its way towards... (more)

Touchdown! Yep - that's more than an illusion, that IS the plow scraping the rail head as the PAS BFPO emerges from the 'dip' and grade through the Bellows Falls tunnel with the Saturday slurry t... (more)

The end of a short rail spur in tiny Hensler, North Dakota, on BNSF’s Zap Subdivision branch line out of Mandan has an unique end-of-track bumper. I’ve never seen one used this way, and I’m ... (more)

Under a gloomy sky Union Pacific FEF-3 no. 844 briefly returns to freight service as she heads home from Denver on the point of mixed freight, slipping through a cut between Swan and Wycon on main... (more)

RISING FROM THE DEAD! ...I wish. This oddball factory rebuilt former New York Central 16-10 Slumbercoach was Amtrak's Vermillion Harbor that derailed in 1994 as part of the Lake Shore Limit... (more)

Keokuk Junction Railway's B unit is missing from the classic A-B-A lashup as a former CSXT GP16 fills in. The Westbound train crosses the Spoon River Bridge on Thursday afternoon. Steve Smedley

Christmas came late to the Strasburg railroad following a morning of doubleheaded steam freight. The weather was cloudy and cold, but that didn't stop dozens of railfans chasing the consist across... (more)

During a fairly rare move, the "Marsh Job" has just finished picking up two loaded low gons from Miller Compressing and is shoving back up the connection track to finish their switching ... (more)