Arcade & Attica's tourist train passes a couple fishing in a creek in downtown Arcade.

An Amtrak Empire Service train accelerates away from Poughkeepsie Station as a southbound Metro-North train waits to depart. Several other Metro-North trainsets await the call to weekday service. ... (more)

Brand New: GO MP40 620 basks in the sun at Motive Power Industries in Boise, Idaho, in the company of Metrolink MP36 893. The GO unit is complete and awaits minor paint work to the fibergla... (more)

A pristine B&O caboose, decked out in full Capitol Dome paint, trots along at the end of CSX's Lorain local. How many years did this caboose have to wait for the paint scheme on the locomotives to... (more)

A northbound BNSF fright crosses a deep ravine on the "Peavine." An old depression-era highway bridge sits in the bottom of the ravine.

The tour train sustains heavy fire in a pasture south of Curriers.

Classic Puget Sound: A southbound Cascade dashes past the ferry dock in Steilacoom. The Tacoma Narrows bridge is visible in the upper left.

The eastbound Empire Builder rounds a curve at Summit, with the Rocky Mountains in the background.

Fall colors are at peak along the former Algoma Central. I'm glad I rode this train at the height of its evolution, back when the cars were maintained, the food was delectable, there were domes an... (more)

Maine Eastern's gorgeous FL9's skirt Sheepscot Bay at sundown on a summer evening.

When I traveled to California, it was to escape the dreadful Michigan winter. I never expected to encounter three feet of snow in Colorado and New Mexico on the way there. Both Amtrak P42DCs on th... (more)

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Only one horse has taken notice as KCKPAS accelerates out from the siding in Reed Point, Montana. The train carries two Boeing airplane bodies at the front, and while it made an interesting train ... (more)

Two Chinese QJ steam locomotives and Milwaukee Road 261 shake the ground in Bureau, Illinois.