A Skyline and a Park car are at CAD and have been here for a number of weeks. Possibly they are here to undergo a static structural test (compression test), as VIA Rail was mandated to do by a Tra... (more)

In need of a facelift, BNSF 3022 with 9 loads of lumber are tied down for the night.

Self Lighted. Former Norfolk & Western Railway GP9 686 led the Railroad Museum of New England "Litchfield Hills BBQ & Whiskey Train" towards Litchfield, Connecticut on the night o... (more)

UP 3096 climbs uphill near MP 186 (Troy) on Donner pass.

For nearly 20 years I have had a fascination for the bridges on Donner Pass and snow removal. I havent been to Donner much over the past 10 years, and only once in the summer since I have had a dr... (more)

WC SD45 7525 sits decorated for the season during the Happy Holiday Railway event at IRM.

UP 585 leads a flanger eastbound ahead of Amtrak 6 over the Lower Cascade Bridge near Troy, CA on Donner Pass.

UP 585 leads a flanger ahead of Amtrak 5 near Troy, CA on Donner Pass.

Smoke, steam and cinders fly into the cold Colorado sky as Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Rotary OY and an all but invisible outfit train plows through the last bit of crusty snow before reachin... (more)

After coming off the 2.2% downgrade from the East Portal of the Cascade Tunnel, the DPUs of a eastbound oil train race towards Wenatchee along HWY 2.

In the bitter winter weather of Stevens Pass, BNSF is still running trains up the 2.2% climb to the Cascade Tunnel. Seen here is an eastbound empty coal train heading around a curve after recently... (more)

Amtrak train 9, the westbound North Coast Hiawatha, makes a station stop in Livingston on a cold and snowy December day. The power for this train, SDP40Fs 531 and 576, has been "blue ... (more)

NJ Transit and Metro North units await their next call in the small Port Jervis yard.

CSX empty coal train R004 heads west through State Line Tunnel in Canaan, NY with an SD40 on the point.

A view of the wooden trestle across the Los Pinos river during the first day of the Toltec Rattler Redux event. While the weather is slowly improving, clouds from the storm which brought the first... (more)