New York, Susquehanna & Western RS1 252 was painted for the country's Bicentenial Celebration. Here she's seen working the Edgewater yard in front of the already long abandoned Ford Plant (which ... (more)

A pair of former Lehigh Valley "Pups" brings three Conrail cabooses up towards R Tower on a cold February afternoon. These locomotives probably were assigned her during the Lehigh Valley... (more)

The Baja California Railroad interchange job has just pulled back into Mexico from the USA and is being inspected by Federal Police on the other side before the train will be turned over to the ro... (more)

A Metro Rail work train is behind a Brandt truck as it is going to be moving from the Green Line (now the C Line) to the brand new Crenshaw Line, pulling Metro Rail's very first car, retired P865 ... (more)

Having been set up for a movie shoot (HANCOCK - starring Will Smith as a homeless/boozer superhero), PHL SD18r 40 is being stripped of its "movie makeup" by set dressers. A fake wrecked nose had b... (more)

It's pouring rain and I've just discovered that an entire day of railfanning was blown as my color film didn't catch. Borrowed my dad's camera to get this black & white of the Dinky (aka the PJ&B ... (more)

The Metrolink from San Bernardino to Los Angeles has just crossed the San Gabriel River. It is now heading downgade over the horses at Rancho El Farallon. This segment of elevated track is the "E... (more)

A crew-member riding point (this engine is actually at the rear of the train at this point) waves at some locals as a riprap train that has gained a lot of local attention moves farther north up t... (more)

RS11 #7650 is about to go out on HW2 while S2 #9824 works the yard. The two railfans in the shot would appear in a couple more of our shots that day. The tracks that they are trespassing on lead t... (more)

Nothing on this train tells you that it is a Conrail run subsidized by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Crossing the Garden State Parkway, the train is made up of two Penn Central E8s,... (more)

One of Santa Fe's home made SD45-2Bs makes a rare appearance at Watson Yard with the WATBAR consist. ATSF converted eight of their SD45-2s into cabless boosters. The dynamic brakes were moved to... (more)

When I found out that the last SP GP40-2 on the UP roster was working on the El Segundo Local there was one shot I knew I wanted and it was this, of the train coming in onto the Wilmington Sub wit... (more)

A Union Pacific coal train heads east into Moffat Tunnel, passing by the crowd awaiting the Denver bound Ski Train. Unfortunately it was three degrees out and we would have to wait at least anothe... (more)

Conrail #8830, weekend commuter service southbound out of Poughkeepsie, NY comes around the curve in Cold Spring, NY with Breakneck Ridge looming behind on May 20, 1978. It's led by two Penn Centr... (more)

Cab hop is most likely the Buena Park Hauler (a City of Industry to Buena Park drag that was taking advantage of additional storage made available during the widening of the Santa Ana Freeway at t... (more)