Looking rather incomplete, AT&SF Pacific #1316 waits quietly in the yard at Rusk. Her new boiler is on site, but an engineering oversight means it will need rebuilt before it even has its first fi... (more)

After a successful second day of break-in running on the way to Ogden, Big Boy 4014 cools its heels in Rock Springs as an eastbound stack train passes on the main.

I happened across this movement completely by accident on my way into work. Nobody shot at me, and the black helicopters haven't shown up yet, so here's my photo of a cask train, westbound near t... (more)

"The door is closed!" Steve Barry's cry rang across the Ocotillo Wells desert, the four words none of us thought we'd hear on a 100°+ day. Nevertheless, the second departure from the US G... (more)

Sunset for the Southwest Chief- With the evening sky darkening, the last Superliner of the eastbound Southwest Chief streaks by the only wig-wag crossing signal in service on a Class I Rail... (more)

There is nothing else I've seen of Man's industrial might more impressive than a blast furnace being tapped. Here we see a line of bottle cars spotted under the cast house, with one being filled ... (more)

Usually locomotives stay on the rails and pull trains, earning revenue for their owners. Sometimes, they try to leave their steel lifelines and explore the world of farming. Consequently, locomo... (more)

Looking rather worse for wear, the fireman's side of NS 1036 bears the scars of a derailment caused by a sun kink. Now sitting upright in a farmer's field, 1036 awaits a return to the rails for a... (more)

Size matters! As far as boxcars go, this Conrail 86' autoparts box is about as big as they come. The smaller car to the right, a Pennsylvania Railroad X29, is a very good representation of the com... (more)

Up, up and away! For the first time in many years, Genesee & Wyoming #20 is lifted free of its rails, in preparation for loading onto a flat car. The 1944 General Electric product was donated to... (more)

Welcome Back- For the first time since 1966, the wheels of Nickel Plate S-2 #757 roll along rails of its home state, moving north on the Norfolk Southern Youngstown Line. Mechanica... (more)

Against the backdrop of a westbound intermodal, 4014 clears Dale Junction, Wyoming.

No, the Lindbergh Engine isn't prepping for surgery, that's just masking in preparation for painting the cab signal equipment box. Nearing the end of its lengthy cosmetic restoration, E6s #460, f... (more)

Perhaps the very last piece of rail equipment to grace the rails of the turntable at the Mon-Con roundhouse, the Youngstown Steel Heritage hi-rail truck basks in the sun of an unseasonably warm Ja... (more)

After most of a day's worth of rainy, cloudy chasing, Bennett Levin's restored PRR E8's lead the Pacific Express into Cambridge Springs, PA. The train, which spent its day traveling the former Er... (more)