On October 24, 1992, the Soo Line’s abandoned, former Milwaukee Road yard at Savanna, Illinois, is still populated by a large assortment of Soo and Milwaukee cars awaiting a date with the cuttin... (more)

Reading Company's Hatfield Station: Trackside

Founded in 1742, Hatfield Township became legally incorporated as a borough in 1898. The North Pennsylvania Railroad built a line through Ha... (more)

Coors 998 (EMD SW1001) gets ready to run a string of hoppers under McIntyre Street in Golden on the way to the silo. Once filled with grain the engine will push the cars back to the main brewing ... (more)

Nevada Northern Railway Alco RS3 No. 109 and a short freight train sits in the siding at Lavon, Nevada, as NNRy No. 93 storms by with an ore train as the sun sets on February 7, 2004.

I lucked into the Salt Lake Garfield & Western MP15 switching the international center.

Roseville bound tonnage emerges from the Norden shed, led by a 'Sierra 5200', with a classic SP signal bridge framing the snowy scene. At the time the searchlight installations at Norden were (and... (more)

A Philadelphia, Bethlehem & New England NW2 works a yard job in Bethlehem, PA, back when Bethlehem Steel was a thriving business and the PB&NE was a busy switching railroad.

The conductor looks back for latecomers as a set of former Lackawanna MUs, forty years old at the time, prepares to depart South Orange, NJ, for the Hoboken terminal.

Soo Line SW9s 2119 and 2118 picking up a transfer from the BN at Rices Point Yard in Duluth July 1980. These SW9s were built in September 1953 for the original Wisconsin Central. The 2119 was pain... (more)

Steam Engine for Hire. One of the more unique steam operations in the United States is an outfit called the "Gramling Locomotive Works." Based out of Ashley, Indiana, this operation is run... (more)

PRR 1223 and 7002 are being serviced after a Lancaster Chapter NRHS excursion to Philadelphia. The D16sb American and E7s Atlantic were designed by the PRR's Axel S. Vogt and Theodore N. Ely, res... (more)

With its job shoving a string of 10 tank cars into storage complete, Fillmore & Western 1059 leads a sole caboose, which served as a buffer car for the move, out of the railway's only tunnel back ... (more)

Norfolk Southern local C87 has finished switching work at PVS Chemical Solutions ad is pulling back towards the Ebenezer Runner to allow the conductor to close and lock the gates at the facility. ... (more)

Built in 1931, the Canguera Station had better days, facing the modern "AC" era. Northbound VLi U61 double heading AC44i locomotives, passes by the old station, heading from Santos to Ca... (more)