Early to Rise. While In Charleston for work, I woke up early each morning to see if I could catch PR working around the Charleston Navy Base. The first morning I had no luck but on this se... (more)

AV 8525 from Bolzano to Naples with the etr 400 of trentialia near Mezzorcona.

Southern Belle in the Dead of Night | Returning to Shreveport after Friday's merger celebrations in Kansas City, the CPKC Southern Belle FP9s cruise across a bridge just south of Watts, OK ... (more)

Union Pacific ALCO FA1 1608 and mates lead a westbound freight near Brady Nebraska in 1958. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A golden sunrise at Roggen, Colorado catches the California Zephyr passing a silo as it heads to Denver on the Brush Sub.

Ribbons of steel rail glow in the golden sunrise at Roggen, Colorado as the California Zephyr heads towards Denver on the Brush Sub.

A week ago it was 10 degrees and snowing, today it was 70 degrees and sunny. The snowmelt was fast this spring across NE Minnesota and took less than a week so the rivers are high and moving fast... (more)

BNSF 3026 sits in South Seattle while a very late Coast Starlight passes.

This 1/10th of a second pan shows linwood bound NS 154 crawling by MP 329.8, "five row", With a Union Pacific AC6000 bringing up the rear. Up front was Another Union Pacific and NS 8101.

A consist of BN motive power including BN GP40 3001 & a former CBQ GP30 pose behind a group of ice crystals created by water dripping and freezing from the former CB&Q steam engine water tank. At ... (more)

West Virginia State Route 112 follows the former Norfolk & Western right-of-Way, now Norfolk Southern, from Oakvale WV to Ingleside WV, offering many photo opportunities along the way. Here N&W 61... (more)

P87 slowly works around "the Loops" between Asheville and Old Fort with a train of woodchip empties for Bridgewater. This is one of the more amazing stretches of trackage to observe, esp... (more)

The California Zephyr passes Barr Lake in Brighton, Colorado at sunrise as it heads towards Denver on the Brush Sub.

Night moves. The crew of Southern Pacific Locomotive #18 stops to confer with their colleagues on SP Locomotive #9, as their two freights pass each other in the yard at Laws, California. <... (more)

End Of The Day, End Of An Era The light in the sky is quickly fading on the evening of Thursday, April 13, 2023 while a southbound coal train heads up the grade into Gravette, AR on the Ka... (more)