It's just another day on Atwood Street in Longmont, CO as the Longmont Switch pulls out onto the main after making up their train in the East Yard.

Japanese 900 class diesel locomotive made by Hitachi in 70`s headed a short empty freight train to Machacamarca town cross 6 de Agosto Avenue in middle of traffic jam.

The rust buster for the 2013 Indiana Transportation Museum Fairtrain is well on its way through downtown Noblesville on a Thursday evening after just departing Hobbs Station. The train will be... (more)

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While the Alaska Railroad doesn't run a lot of freight on the south end you can generally count on 2-3 coal trains a week between Anchorage and Seward. Today's shot shows a northbound snaking alon... (more)

Seaboard Coast Line GP40 #1608, leading B23-7 #5151 and U33B #1721, has one of the hottest trains on the railroad (piggyback train #320) down to walking speed as the engineer navigates street runn... (more)

Northbound aluminum ingots emerge from the Frankfort Tunnel and slowly make their way down Broadway Street in the state capitol's downtown commercial district. The brick building visible on the h... (more)

Due to high water from the flooding Mississippi River, the Canadian Pacific decided not to detour but instead push/pull trains through the high water. Although the water here is over the rail, it... (more)

On a steamy July 4th morning, a southbound NYS&W detour train(SU-100 out of Syracuse) rockets southward past the serene waters of the Hudson River at 06:05am. Having made a brisk chase from Cat... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Bitterroot branch (also known as the Darby branch) local passes over some backwaters of the Bitterroot River north of Florence, Montana, on May 18, 2013. This line had high w... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal train glides along the Flathead River through McDonald, Montana, (near Dixon) on May 9, 2010. This is on Montana Rail Link’s scenic Tenth Subdivision between De Smet (Miss... (more)

A Union Pacific special's dead-head move is about to die on the hours of service at 1800 at Barr Siding, North of Springfield, Illinois. Steve Smedley photo

After cooling its heels in the siding at Tolland to allow Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr to overtake it, a loaded UP coal train heads downhill from the divide along South Boulder Creek, swol... (more)

After serving the lone customer on the Carbon Run Branch the crew of North Shore 1940 pauses in downtown Shamokin along South 5th Street for a quick lunch break before continuing on to interchange... (more)

Besides along Lincoln Avenue in Santa Ana, Calif., where else do trains run so fast so close to private homes? Here was former UP E9 No. 912 racing Amtrak Train 770 at maximum authorized speed o... (more)