An eastbound Santa Fe intermodal climbs the grade towards Tehachapi.

"End Of The Line" HKGX SD40-2 #3549 passes behind a hopper being cut up for scrap. H&K continually maintains and updates their fleet of rolling stock. In the foreground, a Caterpillar 3... (more)

Western Maryland-painted FP9 243 leads a freight train towards Elkins. To watch the whole chase, click here: https://youtu.be/fNOH87eXGZU?si=hWvLT-QNVIeXMkRZ

SP train 70, The Coaster, is on the move near Glendale California at 40 MPH, with 13 cars, in 1940. Otto's trusty 1935 Ford V-8 sedan is visible at left. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collectio... (more)

CPKC 112 has autoracks up front (and unusually, more on the tail end) as it enters Lachine IMS Yard.

Led by BNSF GE ES44AC No. 6177, a westbound BNSF coal train crosses the Clark Fork at Noxon, Montana on February 13, 2024. This scenic Montana Rail Link main line is now BNSF’s MRL Subdivision o... (more)

Rolling through the picturesque Jefferson River Canyon, one of what's likely to be the final MRL ballast trains is dwarfed by a massive cavern, part of the Lewis and Clark Cavern State Park. Truly... (more)

Activity is a plenty in the biggest yard on BNSF; Argentine Yard. Around the bowl, we see locomotives from BNSF, UP, and the Kansas City Terminal, who just brought over interchange traffic from t... (more)

Mountain Town Railroading | A pair of engines lead a westbound train of autorack cars through the town of Welch, WV on a misty Monday, December 18, 2023 morning.

BN 9804, former NP 6701A built in August 1956, has been pulled from passenger service and is seen here at Minneapolis mated up with a former GN GP20. Amtrak did not acquire this unit.

For reasons unknown SP train number 19, the Klamath, has arrived Gerber California 8 hours & 15 minutes late on July 30th 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Santa Fe could always put on a show on their Chicago mainline to Kansas City and California. Here a quartet of Superfleet power led by ATSF GP60M 142 leads a quartet of Yellow/blue power on a west... (more)

Factory Fresh NS 1074, the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western heritage unit was recently cosmetically restored and mechanically overhauled. After more than a month in the paint booth, 1074 ... (more)

Berkshire & Eastern is finally a railroad. The purchase of parts of the Pan Am Railways system by CSX called for spinning off basically everything west of Ayer, MA to this new Genesee & Wyoming af... (more)

South over East. An intermodal doubles its train before heading south as a manifest moves east.