Two crew members have a conversation with each other by CNJ 113's cab late in the evening.

night view of the Retiro terminal station

The Classic Insull Style. The sole survivor on an active railroad of the eleven Mediterranean Revival style stations constructed during Samuel Insull's ownership of the area interurbans can... (more)

The California Zephyr runs through Keenesburg, Colorado at sunrise. The golden glow of the morning sun skips across the snow along the track and glints off the stainless-steel skin of the passeng... (more)

The crew has finished loading 145 ore cars up at Minntac has called for signals to depart and head back towards Two Harbors. RTC has given them the lights to proceed.

A high green signal allows Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 583, with a mix of Amfleet and Horizon Fleet cars, to depart Fullerton as the sun sets in the west. This train, heading to Los Angeles f... (more)

With train to Sloka

Blink, blink, blink. A flashing rear end device on a south bound BNSF grain train blinks it’s way slowly up through the curves of Cable on a warm early summer night at around 1 am in the morning... (more)

BCOL 4652 Does Track Speed At Dusk As Good Old BCR Blue Fades Into The Night.

CN Z149 breaks the dense fog passing Durand Union Station, sprinting west ahead of Amtrak.

The Pennsylvania heritage unit has been tied down for well over 24 hours now on the head end of NS 18W. The Central of Georgia heritage with train NS 762 comes to a stop beside it at control point... (more)

Night operations on the Tehachapi Pass is a completely different world. Here a north bound manifest quickly drifts down the grade between tunnels 1 and 2 as the headlights light the right of way t... (more)

It was a photographer's special steam run back in August of 2007, but this little critter was on the end of the train to pull it back to Knoxville. Railroad Pictures Archive tells me she was built... (more)

Macro Four To Three Photography. Constructed for the 1954 opening of the connection BMT and IND between the Church Avenue and Ditmas Avenue Stations in Brooklyn, New York, the switches that... (more)

"Conveying Retirement"

As the sunlight fades away on February 3rd, 2024, Amtrak MP15DC 537 sits coupled to a cut of retired MFS-40 Conveyor Hopper cars at Cedar Hill Yard in... (more)