On a beautiful fall morning, VIA Rail's westbound Canadian races along the calm Yellowhead Lake in Yellowhead, BC on October 1st, 2022.

The Santa Fe Super Chief is seen at Albuquerque New Mexico in 1943. Note the wartime headlight visor on the EMC E6. Jack Delano photo, from the Library of Congress collection and my collection.

One of the seven Amtrak Platinum Mist GG-1s is southbound rounding the big superelevated curve north of Aberdeen's Amtrak station in March 1978- not long before the installation of concrete ties o... (more)

MILW 60A, an FP7 built as 90A in June 1950, mates with an F7A and moves away from the MILW engine terminal at Pig's Eye Yard, St. Paul. After a career of handling Hiawatha's and other MILW passeng... (more)

Southbound San Joquin 710 crosses the Tuolumne River at Empire Ca.

Chesapeake & Ohio E8(A) 4016 leads train 20 The Pere Marquette at Traverse City, Michigan on a very cold day, January 15, 1965. Photo by E.L Huddleston, from my collection. ... (more)

ATSF 2-10-2 1696 is seen helping EMD E6 number 15 with a ten car Super Chief near Morley Colorado in 1942. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Snow Cometh To Those Who Wait For The Erie. After more than 700 days without measurable snow, on the night of Saturday, January 6, 2024, NJ Transit Train 2122 was passing through the distin... (more)

Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha pops out of a tunnel just west of the top of Homstake Pass, providing passengers with a stunning daytime view of the Montana Rockies on its daytime run across western... (more)

The Santa Train of 2023 was led by two GEVOs after complications with the F40s. Nevertheless, the train brought its scheduled holiday to the numerous children along the old Clinchfield. Here, th... (more)

Feeling Right At Home. The Fall Foliage "Circle Line Trip" lived up to its name on October 18, 2014. A chartered Providence & Worcester Railroad train took passengers from Worcest... (more)

Pulling into Park Ridge. NJ Transit ALP-45A no. 4538 (Bombardier, 2019-present) is seen leading Pascack Valley Line train 2103 into Park Ridge Station, passing the historic station hous... (more)

Fall colors are beginning to show as a wine tasting special heads east across this beautiful stretch of ex-L&N rails.

Sometime in the late 1960s a couple of units in the original "Southern Belle" scheme share duties. KCS 25 was a "rebuild" of an E6A which had apparently been wrecked. As I un... (more)

CN's Executive Office Train disembarked its passengers at Montreal's Gare Centrale and is now heading empty to CN's Taschereau yard for the night, passing VIA's 909 pushing a set of LRC cars into ... (more)