Metra's Rock Island painted locomotive, in honors of retired CEO Don Orseno, meets an inbound at 16th Street Tower.

Pan Am's SAPPI job has both of the railroad's heritage GP9s in charge. The crew pulls the train passed the Waterville yard tower and down part of the Augusta Industrial Track. This will give them ... (more)

Iowa 502 leads BICB west past UD Tower in Joliet, which is currently being restored into a museum.

"MARC Charger Test Train at 30th Street" Two of MARC's brand new Siemens SC-44 Charger's lead a test train south out of Amtrak's 30th Street Station on their way to back to Washi... (more)

Shuttling the Flyers to Gotham: Amtrak Metroliner Cab Car #9800 brings up the rear of a three car special hauling the Philadelphia Flyers from Washington to New York on MLK Day 2018. Visi... (more)

Luck was with me on the first morning of my Thanksgiving Vacation. The mostly cloudy weather forecast was completely wrong and New Orleans-Linwood 172 was the first of two NS trains fleeted out o... (more)

CSX GP40-2 6142 accelerates a local through Doswell, Virginia heading back to Acca Yard in Richmond. The tower used to protect the crossing of the C&O Piedmont division and the RF&P main line. The... (more)

VIA 22 is backing out of Central Station in Montreal with VIA 913 pushing.

A duo of golden orange IHB units head north through Broadway Street in Blue Island, destined for Norpaul and interchange to CP at Franklin Park. The leader, 4010, is a rare SP era GP40P-2, which w... (more)

An NS manifest train passes Hunt Tower in Huntingdon, PA on its journey East. The Tower is still in great shape because I believe it has been refurbished previously. It was once host to a transp... (more)

A southbound Elkhart and Western train crosses the CSXT Garrett Sub at Walkerton. We got lucky as we heard rumors this job doesn't go much north of Plymouth anymore, I heard once a month. The job ... (more)

A westbound CSX local rolls along the CSX Garrett Sub at Walkerton in northern Indiana. The train has just past the aging tower that once protected 3 railroad crossings here. The b&O crossed the N... (more)

Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway 3442 West passes the Wabash Railroad Depot and Model Train Museum, crosssing the former Wabash Chicago to Bement, Illinois rofway. and Steve Smedley photo

NS 20K glides through Altoona past Alto tower with the Illinois Terminal heritage unit on point. The sun has just peeked over the surrounding mountains and a coat of snow lingers from a previous ... (more)

GTW OLS GP38-2 5856 passes Homewood Tower as it works a pulldown.