Part of the collection of the US Army Transportation Museum at Fort Eustis, VA, this WWII era ambulance ward car sits outside the gate to the US Army Aberdeen Proving Grounds, awaiting pickup by a... (more)

Eastbound train 264 stopped at Harwood Ave. for yard congestion in Milwaukee.......crew members Engineer Dick Frette and Head Brakeman Jeff Hince kick their feet up and rest till the GYM calls on ... (more)

WOW......this is a far cry from what the Harwood Ave crossing looks like today.......photo taken back when the Milwaukee Road was already operating under belt tightening RRing....today they call i... (more)

Two empty grain trains await their turn to depart eastward on a fall afternoon.

Great Northern NW2 110 at Daytons Bluff in St. Paul, MN June 1968. The 110 was built in May 1939 as GN 5310 and renumbered to 110 in 1943. This NW2 became BN 458 and was retired in August 1983. Ke... (more)

A BNSf grain train rolls by the Izaak Walton Inn with an SD75 in trail.

The interior of former New York Central Railroad Budd built Pullman obs/diner/sleeper "Babbling Brook" (WEBX 800007) is a thing of beauty, a combination of restoration and modern comfort... (more)

Burlington Northern SD7 6006 in hump service at Pasco WA July 1972. Built in May 1952 as Great Northern 556 and retired in September 1983. This SD7 has left its home rails on the old GN Mesabi Div... (more)

The objects in this scene doesn't particularly give a clue that it's April of 2020, but we're in the cab of 1948 built Clinchfield F3A 800 and social distancing in Blair, Tennessee at the Norfolk ... (more)

An F9 ABBA helper set will assist a freight on its climb to Marias Pass.

Amtrak’s eastbound Empire Builder passes the small BNSF yard and Izaak Walton Inn at Essex, Montana. It’s October 10, 2018, and autumn has arrived as the tamaracks begin to change to gold in this ... (more)

It's about 11PM on a cold snowy night in the north country of Wisconsin.....while most people are headin for bed I'm about to embark on a journey east from Portage to Milwaukee on a couple of old ... (more)

I'm standing on what was once a high level platform between tracks in the Milwaukee Road's West Milwaukee Shops coach yard. This platform was in the past used to allow fork lifts and other carts w... (more)

On Track For A Cure. DTTX Double Stack Car 732301 was one of three similar pink cars that made an appearance on Norfolk Southern's Train 233 on March 1, 2020. In a generic world of generic wells t... (more)

A humbling, and unreal site was on hand as we get a good look at one of the two surviving big New York Central Steam Locomotives. NYC 2933 is the only surviving L-2d Type Heavy Mountain built by t... (more)