Detroit and Mackinac RS2 is tucked away, safe and sound(for now) next to the Lake State Railway's roundhouse in Saginaw, MI. This unit was from the original order of RS2s from Alco in 1946 and br... (more)

It has been a long night of delivering families to the North Pole as the Engineer climbs down from the cab of the Polar Express at the North Carolina Transportation Museum. The amount of teamwork ... (more)

Cornfield meet... well, yes and no. So technically, yes, these trains are passing in a cornfield. However, the phrase "cornfield meet" really refers to two trains attempting to pass each... (more)

An loaded hopper train makes a run at Bozeman pass, grinding out of the tunnel in the last glow of evening light.

ATI 05 is returning to the Breckenridge plant with empty gons and a friendly crew. Allegheny Technologies, or ATI, has an operation that focuses on the production of stainless and specialty steels... (more)

The Conrail heritage unit compliments the blue paint on the silo and adds some color to a dreary winter day in North Carolina as it leads eastbound manifest train 135 out of town. The silo is a re... (more)

The Pocono turn passes the tower in East Straudsburg and heads back to Scranton after dropping cars at the paper mill in Delaware Water Gap. Built in 1908, the East Stroudsburg Railroad Tower stan... (more)

There are multiple impressive wooden trestles along the former Tennessee Central line between the mine at Crab Orchard and the interchange in Rockwood. The 3x a week turn crosses the Mammy's Creek... (more)

Dark rain clouds threaten the crew as they spin the Norfolk Southern First Responder's Training locomotive on the turntable at Spencer, NC to get it put away before the next rain deluge.

Cass Heisler #6 simmers away a rainy night outside the small shed in Durbin, WV. In the morning the ashes will be shaken out and the fire stoked to bring steam up to pull the days passenger runs u... (more)

Train 135 heads west from Asheville, NC on its way to Knoxville, TN. The lightly used "S" line follows the French Broad River most of the way from Asheville to Newport, TN before breakin... (more)

The Turtle Creek Industrial Railroad (reporting mark TCKR) was a short line freight railroad that operated in western Pennsylvania between the boroughs of Export and Trafford, where it connected t... (more)

NS train 744 Crosses the French Broad river at Weaver's Bend on its way to Asheville, NC.

Dressed up in Polar Express lettering, Southern GP30 2610 pauses to load passengers for the next trip to the north pole during a rainy evening at Spencer shops.

Caldwell County Railroad rosters 2 ex-SCL GP16s. Both are in regular use but today the 1811 gets fired up as 1747 looks on. Current traffic only necessitates one loco but a second is kept at the r... (more)