Sometimes it is wise to be careful and have a backup plan when introducing new rolling stock into revenue service. VIA uses one of its new Siemens train sets once a week on the pair 33/26, but onl... (more)

Conrail HA16 passes Delaware & Hudson NE87 on the west end of Allentown Yard in Allentown Pennsylvania. The day is February 11, 1978 and my dad and I had been railfanning in the gorgeous sun since... (more)

An empty Norfolk Southern grain train passes Maintenance of Way crews in Columbia, South Carolina heading northbound on the R Line. NS 7635 is a General ES40DC built in 2007. The MoW gang got pull... (more)

CN SD75I 5715 cools its heels at Edson East with an empty Entwistle (Pinnacle Energy) bound pellet train.

A southbound unit train exits the Southern bridge and Gest Street Yard over the river in Cincinnati. The Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway (CNO&TP) still leases the Cincinnati Sout... (more)

Brand new CN AC44C6M 3308 departs Edmonton's Walker Yard with train Q199.

GP 38-2 7514 passes IC Dash 9-44CW 2718 as it works at the west end of Clover Bar Yard.

CP 8007 prepares to depart from Clover Bar Yard and head east on the Scotford Sub with CP B82.

Three trains are at the yard in Monroe, North Carolina dn two of them are moving! To make the shot more memorable to me is that I literally pulled up ten seconds before the road freight passed me!... (more)

Another passenger train heads south passing an empty rock train in the siding at the Klatt Road grade crossing in Anchorage Alaska.

While a Chicago & North Western coal train loads on the spur to Antelope Mine, a northbound Burlington Northern coal train, powered by a trio of BN EMD SD70MACs, passes by on the main line at Conv... (more)

Busy times at Franklin Park
Just east of Soo Line’s sprawling, former Milwaukee Road Bensenville Yard, an eastbound Soo Line freight meets a westbound Grand Trunk Western train at Fra... (more)

The tri-weekly Fairburn, GA to Crandall, GA intermodal creeps through the non-bonded siding at Emerson past X54110 stopped on the main. Business to the Appalachian Regional Port has been good thr... (more)

It was springtime in Powder River Basin the day before, but on May 13, 1995, it was like winter as two Burlington Northern coal trains meet at Reno Junction, Wyoming, during a late snowfall.

CSX Geometry train W003 rolls past the 10th Street interlocking beginning its trip to Montgomery,AL as a trio of KCS Belles shove NS 24E past 'Howell' and into Norfolk Southerns Inman Yard. Atlan... (more)