The Silver Star passes the Page-Walker Hotel building with a pair of P42s for power.

A group of railfans photograph Amtrak 92 as they service the station in Cary while Piedmont train 75 works the other platform.

More snow then ever this winter on Rigi Staffel. Cogwheel railcar Bhe 2/4 # 2 of the Rigi Bahnen, built in 1937 for the Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn, is shoving the snow plough X # 102 built in 1931. The pan... (more)

Electric cogwheel snow blower locomotive He 2/3 # 8 of the Rigi Railways clearing track 2 on Rigi Staffel. There is more snow than ever this winter towards the end of April. The three-axle locomot... (more)

More snow on Rigi Staffel than ever before this winter towards the end of April. Cogwheel locomotive He 2/2 # 18 of the Rigibahnen, built in 1938 by SLM and BBC for the Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn (VRB) wit... (more)

More snow on Rigi Staffel than ever before this winter towards the end of April. Cogwheel locomotive He 2/2 # 18 of the Rigibahnen, built in 1938 by SLM and BBC for the Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn (VRB) wit... (more)

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Drive and coupling rod bearing with eccentric crank on the second drive axle of the 4-8-2 "Mountain" 241 A 65 built in 1931. Quite filigree drive on this four-cylinder compound locomotiv... (more)

Black and white study of the impressive "Mountain" 241 A 65 during tests in Full AG. After several years of extensive repair and refurbishment, the former French 4-8-2 express train stea... (more)

WCAM3 hauled 11025 Pune Bhusawal express on Karjat Panvel line, taken near Karjat.

CSX SD70MACe 4732 leads M642 North through Blue Island, about to make the turn East for Barr Yard.

CSX SD70MACe 4732 leads M642 West through South Holland.

Tying up
The conductor does some last minute paperwork and the engineer shuts down the power as Watco’s Palouse River & Coulee City freight ties up at Mockonema, Washington, on Septem... (more)

Snow in Colorado is spring isn’t unusual, and another cloaked the Front Range on April 19, 2024. The next day, BNSF’s Provo to Denver priority freight descends Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel ... (more)

Powered by a pair of leased Union Pacific EMD SD70Ms, Rocky Mountaineer’s “Rockies to the Red Rocks” Colorado and Utah excursion train follows the Colorado River moments after exiting 463-fo... (more)