Just a few minutes after sunset on a frigid January evening, a Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railroad local is working customers in one of the industrial parks south of downtown. The railroad has a uni... (more)

Lehigh Hanson has acquired two former Missouri Pacific SD40-2s (UP 4279, previously MP 4279 and originally MP 3279) and 4297, (UP 4297, previously MP B4297 and originally MP 3297) to operate their... (more)

Rolling through beautiful Utah red rock country bordering Arches National Park, a 13-car Union Pacific Potash local approaches multiple curves nearing Emkay, Utah, on March 4, 2012. This is a form... (more)

An NS SD70M-2 and UP SD70M just climbed out of Raleigh with a loaded phosphate train out of Lee Creek. They're now cruising down CSX's Aberdeen Sub to Fetner, where they'll reenter NS rails bound ... (more)

EL RENO OK April 13 1980 — The Rock Island has shut down and this string of Rock Island cabooses await their fate. My photo.

Another CSX Heritage unit makes its way over the Lineville Subdivison. A little over a day prior, this Chesapeake & Ohio Heritage scheme engine, brought autoracks north on train M222. Now headed ... (more)

M410 rolls into Selkirk yard with the new Conrail Quality Heritage Unit.

Under a cloudy Summer day, part of CSX's Office Car Train sits and awaits its next trip to see part of the system. The building to the right, known at the Kenneth C. Dufford Transportation Center ... (more)

Foreign Pumpkins on April Fools. First shot in the database of this re-lettered, recently acquired ex-BNSF Dash in the yard. These parts mostly sees GP38s and SD40/50s.

ATSF 2-10-2 1696 is assisting EMC E1 number 3 with train 17, the Super Chief, on rugged Raton Pass near Wootton in 1938. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

CP 5798 Rolls Past A Couple Of Old Fire Trucks At Drynoch East.

A full on Rain Starts as an R.J. Corman crew with Corman Power lead 54K around the Wye at Cresson. From Cresson the train heads North for Clearfield, PA.

Soon after clearing the storage yard at Oxy far in the distance, the engineer has all 5 of his sun beaten locomotives in the corner as they start up the stair step grade that will soon have the tr... (more)

Late on a summer evening, an eastbound heads for Oregon over the west flank of Mt. Shasta.

Oh, California, America's parsidse lost, you affect us all, especially when we have lived there. We long for what you once were. Here a westbound ore train whines down Beaumont Hill for Fontana, ... (more)