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Rounding the iconic curve leading to Cajon Pass' Summit is BNSF Officer Special train O-THDTHD2-01A, which originated in Thenar... (more)

A GE AC4400CW leads the Barstow, CA to Galesburg, IL manifest train as it climbs the 1.4% grade towards Crozier Canyon. Trailing in the lead consist is BNSF 639 & BNSF 973. Both units have been pi... (more)

Painted Sky Over Bunch | Blues, oranges, and pinks cast a brilliant glow in the sky above the community of Bunch, OK where a southbound CPKC coal train cruises through the valley between th... (more)

In 2022 this crane was in front of the Arizona and California Railroad's depot in Parker, AZ. Sadly, the depot was torn down last year but I'm not sure if the crane is still there or not.

The California Zephyr has the Operation Lifesaver engine leading as it runs through flocked trees at Crescent, Colorado on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

A Southern Rwy scale test car sits in the Wheel Balancing Shed at Spencer shops, NC. The shed, built in 1944, houses a set of eight Fairbanks scales connected to the tracks where steam locomotives... (more)

After a bit of wait in Lake Villa due to Maintenance of Way, CN A490 is on the move south in Round Lake Beach. Leading the way is a Warbonnet C44-9W.

Everything was cold and static on a fall morning visit to Nevada Northerns shops. The last RSD-4 in existence, #201 waits among other stablemates for the next call to duty.

This train on the RER C line between Montigny-Beauchamp and Invalides crosses the Seine on the Rouelle bridge

What a way to end 2024! The daily VR freight train from Siilinjärvi to Uusikaupunki has stopped at Saakoski siding to let a passenger train pass while a show of rather rare red aurora borealis ma... (more)

Battered Belle In Charge | On the dank morning of Sunday, December 29, 2024, southbound CPKC manifest train M262 parallels Butler Creek near Sulphur Springs, AR as it charges uphill. With t... (more)

The Road Less Traveled | A Tulsa-to-Kansas City manifest train heads north on the former Frisco main at a scarcely-frequented road near Fulton, KS on a mild Saturday, December 28, 2024 afte... (more)

Just south of Toledo, OH is a busy CSX/NS diamond and a popular railfan location. How many times have you been there and never knew there was a duck pond(literally) right next door? A CSX autorac... (more)

Reading & Northern engineer Nate Mengel eases CNJ #113 forward on December 11, 2022 across the street from the former Reading Company station in Minersville, PA. #113 will be warming her cylinders... (more)

CNJ #113 Fireman Jake Pothering adjusts the air compressor on the 1923 product of ALCO on the morning of December 11, 2022. Working on steam locomotives is not light work.