Union Pacific’s set of E9s are fresh from a rebuild on April 27, 1993, as they pull a passenger train past the imposing state capital of Missouri at Jefferson City.

You would expect to find these smaller BN SW1s working small yards or shop facilities versus a large terminal like St. Paul. It was a beautiful summer day to be riding on the porch!

F45s BN 6643 and 6638 lead GP39-2 2710 on the head end of an eastbound manifest freight as it accelerates away from the Rock Island bridge it had just crossed over the Columbia River. The train is... (more)

CNW 4087C sits outside the roundhouse at Green Bay looking more like a Centipede than an F7 with the wheels in the foreground. In August 1969 CNW was still a busy railroad in Green Bay featuring b... (more)

On display in the main hall of The Railway Museum in Saitama City just north of Tokyo, is the first JNR limited express EMU. It was built in 1965, with a maximum speed of 110 kmph and a travel tim... (more)

A short window between two tunnels and a scene which seems coming from the past, with the excursion train organized for the 80 years of "Direttissima" Bologna-Firenze line.

E.405 015 & 186 281 of RTC stand side by side in the maintenance depot at Brennero

Along the Okanogan River the Oroville local returns to Omak, Washington with three loads of lumber and an empty center beam flat. The railroad, based in Omak, sends a daily turn up north and a We... (more)

Where SD40s no longer tread. A view taken inside the DW&P's curved 520-ft tunnel in far western Duluth. Blasted out in 1912, this rugged line into Duluth was abandoned in 1984 when the Peg started... (more)

A rare view (taken with permission) of Great Northern's former ore dock No. 1 in the Allouez neighborhood of Superior. This dock, last used in 1988, loaded the great lakes vessel Edmund Fitzgerald... (more)

EL's tug Elmira slips past the ferry John is riding revealing the mail and express tracks of the EL Hoboken Terminal. These boxes arrived on long distance passenger trains which were being elimin... (more)

Three CN MR-14c’s have completed their work to the west and are returning at Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, seemingly running on sod on July 20, 1984 before the line was abandoned.

N&W 2141 with its eastbound loaded coal train waits at Bluefield, Va. to enter the Bluefield, W. Va. yard and swap crews.

Here we see GE B40-8W 522 leading 4 screaming EMD GP60M's as they roar out of tunnel 5 at Cliff

Built in nearby LaGrange, a brand new Conrail SD50 awaits pick up by its owner at the Indiana Harbor Belt's Blue Island Yard. A set of older Conrail EMD power can be seen in the background as wel... (more)