Vermont Rail System's Green Mountain Railroad annually serves the Rockingham/Bellows Falls Old Homes Day fireworks celebration and this year, while the Alco is still being readied for Fall service... (more)

Fully loaded and pulling hard out of the mine past 82 Station cinders flying everywhere, whistle blowing, and drivers pounding the railhead. I will never forget my time in China and only wish I co... (more)

Lyria service #9261 Paris-Lausanne crosses the magnificent La Joux forest, famous for its magnificent fir trees and spruces. The biggest one is elected "Sapin Président".

CN8819 leads a stack train up the grade above Lytton. The train is running eastbound on the Canadian Pacific. The CN tracks are on the opposite side of the river, with the famous White Canyon in... (more)

Reading on the Great Broad Way

A Reading GP35 leads an eastbound Conrail manifest into the cut at Bennington Curve on the former Pennsylvania main line. Because they retained their... (more)

A pair of freshly rebuilt Canadian Pacific AC44C6Ms lead an empty ethanol train from Albany towards Montreal. The small town of Dresden is awakened at 4am as the train rumbles through the night.

A James Claflin original Kodachrome slide from my collection.

A venerable string of Budd cars heads through Spuyten Duyvil in the Bronx during a thunderstorm, on their way into Grand Central.

A trio of Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors power a westbound train with double stacks up front as it approaches Malta, Colorado, on the scenic route over Tennessee Pass on May 24, 1991.

With low hanging clouds and fog still overtaking the tracks on the west slope, the Office Car Special races uphill towards Altoona shortly before 7am. The train is coming back from a week long tri... (more)

New England Central Railroad's Brattleboro to Palmer turn train, symbol 611, crosses the Connecticut River at East Northfield, Massachusetts, behind SD40-2 (SD40 bodies) 3405 and 3478, along with ... (more)

The view of The Canadian Pacific Roundhouse from CN Tower. Not even the coaling tower still stands at the time of the photo

UP 4014 heads back west over the famous Kate Shelley High Bridge just west of Boone, Iowa.