A loaded ore train rolls down Steelton Hill in a cloud of brake shoe smoke. Trailing units are DMIR SD9 #139 and DMIR SD18 #193. Consist is ballast loads upfront followed by taconite concentrate.

Current trains consist of one full length dome and a bi-level coach set with an interesting history. The car pictured was built for the Long Island RR in 1991 by Tokyu Car Corporation as one of fi... (more)

The Union Pacific A-B-A E unit set WB between Portola and Clio. (963B and 949 trail) During July 4th weekend 1994 UP and the Portola Museum operated 4 round trips over 2 days between Portola, Kedd... (more)

SNC rolled out their BL2 on Thursday Oct 20th and here it rolls SB pulling the afternoon train as the days light fades fast. Between the perpetual clouds and short days, sunny shots have been elus... (more)

A new UP GenSet sits in the service area at CSX's Selkirk Yard during the blue hour.

It looks like Maine but it’s not. It’s actually MP 599 as measured from Mattawamkeag, Maine (a milepost convention implemented by Guilford). The Binghamton Pushers have just completed shoving ... (more)

CP Southend picnic train from Scranton to Oneonta climbs Belden Hill just south of Sanitaria Springs. For the first 3 years of D&H ownership CP had an annual employee picnic in Oneonta and brought... (more)

Alco 5, one of the plant switchers that was used at the Alco plant in Schenectady, rounds the curve along the upper Hudson River at Stony Creek running NB to North Creek on the former D&H Adironda... (more)

Lost in the vastness of the Adirondack Park, the S&NC morning NB from Saratoga rolls along the upper Hudson River with 5 cars as viewed from an approx elevation of 1770' on the summit of Pine Moun... (more)

Onboard the Incan Superior. After my friends and I stumbled upon this ship, the crew was nice enough to invite us on board for the grand tour and unrestricted photo time. The gesture was much appr... (more)

The Saratoga Yard Job generates some Alco smoke as CP RS18u's 1828 and 1805 kick cars during flat switching.

The MA&N operated this plow train to clear the line to Lyons Falls the afternoon after the Utica NY area received 3 feet of snow in a single day. Plow is borrowed Conrail single track russell plow... (more)

Monongahela coal train is just starting the loading process on the loop track at Blacksville #2. Trailing units are B23-7R #2303 and #2301

A Vermont Rail System extra moves 2 former Iowa Pacific E8's headed for storage on the Batten Kill RR. The engines are now owned by creditors and are for sale. They are former PRR units that were ... (more)

TV200X, the first of two closely spaced EB stacks (designated by the X in the symbol), rolls along the West Branch Delaware River with CR SD50's #6780 and #6779 followed by CR SD40 #6315 (ex PC 60... (more)