The year is 2018. How many places can you go to see a CF7, leading doublestacks, on a double track class one mainline past an Amtrak station? Not many, as far as I'm aware. CSX Z103-27 slowl... (more)

Amtrak (IDTX) 4627 leads test train #919 thru Franksville, WI on CP's C&M Subdivision. The train is running westbound on the route of the Empire Builder, presumably to test the suitability of the ... (more)

A Grande View! Rio Grande power dominates this January 2000 elevated view of the yard at Helper, UT. UP's LJP45 "Dirt Train" local has just arrived back in town and is seen passing a few ... (more)

A view to be seen only in memory or photographs. Over six years ago on a late summer night in August, CSX 8774 just comes off of pit 2 pulling three other EMD SD40's, with other power sitting out... (more)

Amtrak GP7U "pumpkins" 777 & 780 have made their delivery of PRR 4935 to the Strasburg Rail Road interchange at Leaman Place. From here SRC 33 will move PRR 4935 to its new home at the R... (more)

The former Great Northern depot at Mora, MN shows off its Big Sky Blue trim two years after the BN merger. It eventually got BN green trim, and still stands today although the track is now gone. T... (more)

BNSF 8501 stirs up th loose snow as it hauls the K-160 loaded oil around the Fonda curve in the sunset with a fellow railfan giving a wave to the friendly crew.

Cargill's newest Gainesville plant locomotive rests during a rare Georgia snow day. The bright locomotive contrasts dramatically among the untouched snow and Norfolk & Western boxcar rusting away ... (more)

Pan Am detour train 11R-24 is pulling toward Riverside Yard in Rockingham, Vermont, on the GMRC Bellows Falls Subdivision. The train is on the causeway splitting the Connecticut River (NH) and We... (more)

A DPU brings up the rear of a manifest arriving at Arden in Las Vegas. Arden's Cactus Rd Overpass is a great and safe place to stake out the UP in the hit or miss train environment of Vegas.

Conrail GP9 7508 leads a short work train through the station at Bridgeport, CT, on a spring day. CR 7508 was a former New York Central passenger unit and it later became Metro North 750.

Power for Southern Railway's Crescent sits among Amtrak power in the Ivy City engine terminal. Visible are Amtrak F40's 275, 278 (MU'ed with SDP40F 606), and 285, Southern Railway 6910, and a stor... (more)

"Tanks Drained" Louisville & Indiana Railroad SW1200 #9321 sits "coupled" to NYA SW1001 #101 on the Bay Ridge Branch in the East New York area of Brooklyn. It's fuel tank has just been dra... (more)

Second Central Maine & Quebec Job 1 is approaching its final destination Farnham Yard on a pleasant winter afternoon.