The red eastward facing signal illuminates the air as the headlights of train 306 comes into view, rounding the bend approaching Edmundston, New Brunswick.

Not often does an opportunity exist like this and being a locomotive engineer for the bigger railroad does have it's advantages. Never the less I took the opportunity to park my local road switche... (more)

Brand new Union Pacific EMD SD60M Nos. 6194 and 6205 are in the final stages of assembly as they are “trucked” with an overhead crane specially for visitors during an open house at the sprawli... (more)

Autumn on the Hi Line
On October 8, 2018, a westbound BNSF grain train exits Tunnel 4 and curves along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River just east of West Glacier (Belton), Montana.

Hot Shot on the High Iron The CP Business Train has a clear shot to Smith Falls as they roll through Newcastle on this hot August afternoon.

Here's something I never would have thought I'd ever see in the GTA, Go trains drifting busting through snow. With service running as frequently as every 15-30 minutes it makes it almost impossibl... (more)

The Arlberg Railway (German: Arlbergbahn), which connects the Austrian cities Innsbruck and Bludenz, is Austria's only east-west mountain railway. It is one of the highest standard gauge railways ... (more)

Minnesota Commercial T-3 and B30-7 #88 take headroom out of BNSF's Midway Yard, passing by the location that used to be Saint Paul Union Depot. T-3 still has that classic look of a B23-7, but is n... (more)

A 4014 of a different shade. Summer 1990 into summer 1991 was a very interesting time to be on CSXT in Florida. They were taking back NYSW's fleet of B40-8 and using them, initially, in TOFC ser... (more)

M542–shrouded by its own exhaust, charges upgrade through Dossett tunnel bound for Corbin and eventually Cincy.

Another beautiful morning appearance of the Mongolian steppe and Khoolt and Bayan pass. The central part of the Trans-Mongolian railway.

Oil Creek & Titusville M420W smokes it up as it rolls past S2 85 as it pulls freight along the yard tracks on the east side of Titusville, Pennsylvania. The 3568 has been freshly repainted into th... (more)

Popular Shirt. For sale in the gft shop of the Lake Shore Railway Museum was a t-shirt that was extremely popular and requeires no explanation in this context. The recent donation of GECX 6... (more)

Purchased by the N&W and leased to the Erie-Lackawanna were 19 EMD SDP45s. Upon return to the N&W, the Conrail name was painted out and a small "NW" was added below the cab numbers. Or... (more)

A few minutes after midnight this CN northbound is working hard, breaking the silence and briefly illuminating a misty McKechnie Lake underneath the stars at our makeshift campsite. It took a numb... (more)