My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

A southbound UP local pops out of one of the twin tunnels at Kyune.

A Moment In Westernport. On the morning of Monday, June 21, 2021, former Western Maryland EMDs WM 7471 (SD40, 8/1966) and WM 7436 (SD35, 12/1964) were photographed during the short time tha... (more)

Northern Branch North. Momentarily escaping the snow by slipping under the CSX River Sub, CSXT 6903 (née-CO 4395, GP40-2, EMD, 2/1980) is leading train C777 as it approaches 83 Street in N... (more)

Fairbanks yard is the northernmost engine house in North America and these two cold warriors are amongst the most senior locomotives of the fleet. GP38-2 #2004 came to Alaska in 1986 from Conrail ... (more)

Dwarfed by an interestingly designed apartment complex, Amtrak's Capitol Limited cruises through Gaithersburg, MD without an ALC-42 Charger in sight. "The Crossings," which was constructed in 2016... (more)

Another favorite railroad has passed into the history books. As 2023 draws to a close so does the lease of the old Northern Pacific mainline through the Rockies by Montana Rail Link. One of the ne... (more)

Shoving across the US/Canada border at m.p. 165.5 (Drawbridge) on the CN Rainy Sub. Once in the US the train will swap crews and continue on towards CN's Pokegama yard (Superior WI.) and points b... (more)

Southern Pacific train number 43, the Californian, is seen at Los Angeles with ten cars in 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

It’s 7:11 p.m. on June 21, 2023, as the Deseret Power Railway coal empty returning from the Bonanza power plant in Utah approaches milepost 17 and Midway, Colorado.

One of the more interesting Paducah rebuilds.

Ex CSX SW 1500 leads a strings of loads from the load out at star bridge over the upper submarine bridge toward Alexander. These loads will then be taken by the A&O, and handed off to CSX.

OKLAHOMA CITY June 13 2023 — Oklahoma Railway Museum SW8 OKRX 84 has just switched the experimental hydrogen-powered HH20B OKRX 1205 to the long hood end of the SW8 in preparation for the next d... (more)

Ge 4/4 II # 613 of the Rhaetian Railway pulls the PE 905 GLACIER EXPRESS St.Moritz-Zermatt on the section between Chur and Disentis/Mustér, through the gorge of the Vorderrhein, called Ruinaulta,... (more)

Santa Fe employees and their families enjoy a day of train riding on the Santa Fe mainline between Joliet & the Chicago area. Here engines 105 & 104 are running around their special train and will... (more)