When you begin meeting trains in New Orleans at one pm, and don't escape the confines of UP and CN at their various snared junctions, you tend to end up much later out of town than you thought. Su... (more)

Making their first appearance in WRJ since establishing trackage rights, the OCS is backing around the wye to turn south.

How quickly and suddenly things change. With the Pan Am no more & their OCS seemingly headed to Waycross on CSXT, what will become of them? Dialing it back a number of years, the OCS with their ... (more)

KCS B-KCLR has just stopped in the small town of Ashdown, Arkansas, to let a few people off, and is now floating along at 60mph leaving town. The combined KCS and CP business train was in the midd... (more)

KCS 1 Rich Mountain, Arkansas. We are deep in the Ouachita Mountain range as KCS 1, and the combination CPKC business train roar up the famed Rich Mountain grade on a moody morning. The southbo... (more)

KCS 1 and company look wonderful in the beautiful morning sunlight as they cross a small wooden trestle near Anacoco, Louisiana. The Business train is on day 3 of its multi-day trip to Laredo, Tex... (more)

The Kansas City Southern business special heads south through Poteau, OK on June 6, 2022. This particular running of the business train included five Canadian Pacific cars on the rear.

A few clouds roll in on an otherwise sunny Monday, June 6, 2022 morning as the Kansas City Southern business special cruises past a group of grain bins in the commmunity of Stotesbury, MO. Having ... (more)

A strange visitor to the MBTA/Keolis "Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility" (aka BET), PAR 1 sits silently on Storage West. This EMD FP9A was built in September 1954 as CN 6505, and also w... (more)

For National Train Day, the Georgia Coastal Railway assembled its open-air cars for two round trips. Ex-CN/VIA #1752 is perhaps best remembered as one of the two Peoria & Western/Keokuk Junction ... (more)

For National Train Day, the Georgia Coastal Railway assembled its open-air cars and dinner train consist for trips out of Kingsland. The train is seen here between excursions and dinner train ser... (more)

A private varnish special heading from Boston to Mechanicville.

The Kansas City Southern business train, BMESH-11 rolls westbound through Tallula, LA with the classic 'Belle' consist on April 11, complete with a wave from the Road Foreman ;-). The train carrie... (more)

There were two things I learned about the Pan Am OCS when the F-units were added. 1) it was difficult to predict and 2) it was difficult to predict. Case in point, a westbound excursion run to M... (more)

There were two things I learned about the Pan Am OCS when the F-units were added. 1) it was difficult to predict and 2) it was difficult to predict. Case in point, a westbound excursion run to M... (more)