The Gainesville depot sits under fading summer storm light on a humid June evening. Built in 1910 along the Southern Railway Washington to Atlanta mainline, the station served trains such Crescent... (more)

At 4:40am, the northbound signals at Ayersville, milepost 552.0 of the Piedmont Division, show all stop for southbound manifest 348 to pass through. These Southern Railway signals are on their ver... (more)

The Alaska Railroad is served by two barges in Whittier, the CN Barge see photo #486721, and the ARMS Barge from Seattle. While the CN barge makes an appearance about every 10 days the ARMS Barge ... (more)

The deck of the CN Barge as well as the CN tug just prior to beginning the loading process. This barge is a bit unusual as it actually contains a switch on the deck. The CN Barge makes a round tri... (more)

This is one of several workplaces in the Operations Center East (BZ Ost) for the control of the railway traffic in the region of Winterthur. In full operation during the day, six such places are b... (more)

This is a "historic" picture from inside the central signal tower of Winterthur (located in the first floor of the station building) in december 2005 on 01.45 AM at night. In the foregro... (more)

In 2008 the Alaska Railroad was still using cabooses on the rear of the daily gravel trains, as seen here as the AS&G gravel train rolls off the Palmer Branch and onto the mainline at Matanuska Ju... (more)

Northbound Coke train K209 had a smoldering car, the trainmaster was originally going to just let it go on it's merry way but finally cooler heads prevailed and the Deshler Fire Department was cal... (more)

One of the most luxurious and expensive train worldwide is the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express (VSOE) which is running between London and Folkestone (with cars only for this leg of the journey) and ... (more)

In the late 1800s gold and silver were discovered in the Bradshaw Mountains of central Arizona. As was common at the time, the success of the mines were limited by the lack of transportation into ... (more)

For nearly a decade I would see this view from the back of a taxi when running errands for my family's business in the City. Leave it to my friend and fellow railfan Dennis Livesey to show me how ... (more)

Used for tie storage, an ex Conrail that went to CSX after the merger wears New York Central reporting marks. A paintbrush and a bucket of white paint will do in a pinch.

It's midnight on the Cumberland Subdivision as workers chisel away at the lining of the famous Harper's Ferry tunnel. An all night curfew on the weekends is providing eight hours of work each nigh... (more)

The sun rises over the capitol of the Peach State and the major rail terminals of the city, Norfolk Southern's Inman Yard and CSX's Tilford Yard (left/center of the frame), on a cool late winter m... (more)

Logistics at work: The first rays of light for the day glint of the sides of the various colorful containers being built into trains at Norfolk Southern's Inman Yard. Behind us, Atlanta to ... (more)