Train 463 with locomotives 476 and 473 pauses for water at the new Needleton Tank. However, the old wooden tank is still standing and visible midway through the train.

Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 3802 leads a 15 car Gold Coast Express (UP 2nd 24) near Hermosa Wyoming in 1952. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Rolling through Anacoco southbound

The first of the rambles for 2024 is led back to Reading by the 2102. It is seen crossing the high bridge in Hometown PA.

Light snow falls over the BNSF yard in Golden, Colorado. BNSF Executive Grinstein 9709 (SD70MAC) was a long time fixture of the beer train that ran between the Coors refinery in Golden and Denver... (more)

Thar She Blows! DMIR 332 was used for some switching moves and created quite a scene along Railroad Ave. near downtown Duluth, MN.

As BNSF train Q-RICCHI6-08 (with BNSF Dash 9-44CWs 5215 and 683, along with KCS AC4400CW 4598 – and two more Dash 9-44CWs shoving on the rear: BNSF 5004 and 4960 – for power) climbs the Tehach... (more)

The Caboose Backs In | Freshly-restored Frisco caboose number 1291 eases into position at the Van Buren, AR depot on a cloudy Saturday, April 27, 2024. The pair of Alco C420s powering the t... (more)

The UP's Cane Creek branch is an amazing piece of engineering, carved out amongst the deep red rocks of southern Utah. A nice surprise on my first time shooting the branch was a former Western Pac... (more)

An eastbound manifest has stalled on the 1% grade of Kirkwood Hill and a pair of switchers from the Ewing Avenue Yard in St. Louis has been called in to help the train up the hill.

Balcony Views: CSXT 3198 leads a doubled up loaded coal train eastbound along the CSX James River Subdivision through Balcony Falls in Glasgow, Virginia, as it passes the old coaling tower and ya... (more)

After taking on water, SOO 1003 returns to its train by stirring up fallen leaves as it passes through Schoeffler Park in the center of Brandon, WI.

CP 2816 approaches Blackfalds as it heads south on the Leduc Sub.

Embarking on a grand historic journey, the formidable Class 25NC No. 3437 and her immense freight train thunder with power along the quaint Karoo branch line to Douglas. Captured during a Farra... (more)

Just shy of five years after being pulled from San Bernardino's Viaduct Park, with her restoration nearly complete, Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 stretches her "legs" with some short runs on the C... (more)