The tram Be 6/8 4053 (Bombardier type Flexity) is on line 4 traveling from Altstetten Station to Tiefenbrunnen Station.

Evening trains are making their departures at Basel SBB station where SBB's high speed train to Brig is preparing to depart. The conductor is waiting and checking that everything will go smoothly ... (more)

It's seems to be a normal day at the small Swiss town of Laufenburg, especially on the rails, but something big and old is making a grand entrance. The former SCNF steam locomotive 241-A-65 has ar... (more)

Wildflowers are in full bloom as an Eastbound empty grain train head's down Marias Pass at Bison.

The multi-system locomotive 193 663, leased from Beacon Rail, is leading a northbound car transport train diverted from the Rhieintalbahn to the Gäubahn.

I spent a lot of my evening trying to catch this train. When I showed up at Salt Lake City North Yard. They had refueled the front locomotives. The crew was on ready to go, but they where waiting ... (more)

BLS's regional train from Brig to Bern is making a quick stop at Kandersteg station.

Running Light at Last Light | Just before the sun drops below the horizon on a warm Sunday, August 10, 2025 evening, a northbound set of locomotives cruise across the Arkansas River just no... (more)

The second or third westbound BNSF stack out of Salt Lake depending how you look at it. They had to remove some stacks from the train. Not sure what the issue was but it was delaying the whole pr... (more)

A westbound NS intermodal is headed up grade at the Horseshoe Curve just out of Altoona. The conductor on the head end gives a friendly wave to the train watchers on the inside of the curve as the... (more)

Moonlit Perseids | As Earth rotates for an hour beneath a mostly clear sky on the cool evening of Saturday, August 9, 2025, three northbound trains climb the eastern slope of the Rich Mount... (more)

Dusk in the Valley | Late in the day on a hot Saturday, August 9, 2025, a southbound train of coal loads descends the eastern slope of the Rich Mountain Grade near Eagleton, AR.

SBB Cargo International is hauling an intermodal train northbound on the Gäubahn with locomotive 193 660 leased from Beacon Rail.

ATSF 4-4-2 1488 is seen at Pueblo Colorado in 1933. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

“Fresh Paint for RMLI’s 25-Ton Switcher”

Freshly repainted Long Island Rail Road GE 25-Tonner #399 sits at the Railroad Museum of Long Island in Riverhead, New York, on June 1st... (more)