As the sun begins to set on the hills beyond Blue Mountain, an eastbound manifest roars across the high desert of northern Nevada.

The more time I spend along the Norfolk and Western in Virginia, the more I absolutely fall in love with it. Shots like this abound- you just need to know where to look. An incident with the own... (more)

I guess you could say Norfolk Southern's prototype DC to AC conversion locomotives are rather outstanding in their field! NS AC44C6M #4001 rests in a farm field after being righted following a der... (more)

Moffat and Rollins- With eastbound coal snaking out of the 6.2 mile long Moffat Tunnel, one can't help but marvel at the sheer size of the mountains here. With the former grade of the lin... (more)

Make Life Last, Put Safety First. Important words to live by, especially when working in industry. At the Plaster City, California processing plant DL-535-E #112 spots its train of hopper ... (more)

In the midst of an extensive 1472-day overhaul, Grapevine Vintage Railroad's weary ex-Southern Pacific ten-wheeler looks rather naked. Currently the locomotive is awaiting a new welded boiler bar... (more)

She's Home! Seen in Stall 4 of the Harry & Rebecca Bennett Memorial Roundhouse, the boiler of Juniata's Jewel rests on a Norfolk Southern flat car, directly in front of her 110P75a tender. To th... (more)

After a series of heavy rains, the Buffalo & Pittsburgh suffered some flooding along its former Pennsylvania Railroad low-grade line near DuBois, Pennsylvania, stranding a coal train at the Lady J... (more)

In the late afternoon sun, a Colebrookdale Railroad chartered train for the Berks County Community Foundation rounds the curve out of a deep cut south of Colebrookdale. Recently-arrived ex-Pennsy... (more)

Asleep for now... Newly-arrived Reading T-1 #2100 shares a roof with former Cuyahoga Valley Lines star, ex-GTW #4070, at the home of the Midwest Railroad Preservation Society. Both locomotives a... (more)

Humpty Dumpty, Part II- Seen inside the Harry & Rebecca Bennett Memorial Roundhouse, the headlight for fabled Pennsylvania Railroad K4s Pacific #1361 sits amongst other parts anxiously awaiting th... (more)

June, 1988- a brand new GMC hi-rail truck passes a ratty ex-NYC U25b tied down on a siding. This shot was taken at the Lake Shore Railway Museum's annual Night at the Railroad Museum event, hel... (more)

Last of her kind, Southern Pacific AC-12 Class "Cab-Forward" #4294 was also the last new steam locomotive ordered by the Southern Pacific Railroad. Designed to battle the long, steep gr... (more)

Northwestern Pennsylvania, sometime in the mid-1980's. An eastbound freight behind a battered ex-PC U25b waits in the hole for a recrew as a short westbound local zips by on the main. With fusee... (more)

No, someone didn't forget to shut the water off, this crew knows what they're doing! Even at 11AM, the Colorado summer sun had made the water in 491's tender tank nearly too warm to inject, so th... (more)