The trio of KCS F-units lead CPKC’s Christmas Train east across Crew Lake in Start, LA. on their way to Jackson, MS. For their first stop of the 2024 holiday tour.

This unnumbered GE 44 tonner is the yard switcher for Ray's Transportation (formerly East Coast Rail), suppliers of ties and aggregates. Once worked for Washington DC Metro as L002 and had a sti... (more)

After wintering on an industrial siding in Kolbe, Illinois, the BUGX F7's are on the move again, being handed off by the KJRY to the Tazewell & Peoria railroad. A TZPR SW10 shoves the 2 units tow... (more)

Center Creek Crossing | Mixed power on the head end of an empty grain train crosses the bridge over Center Creek at Carl Junction, MO on the warm evening of Sunday, November 17, 2024.

Southern Pacific 4-8-8-2 cab forward 4114 is seen at Los Angeles California in 1934. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

NW cabooses 555089 and 518585 on the Norfolk Southern Pocahontas Division at Roderfield, West Virginia. May 10, 1988. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

An Electro-Motive Corporation FT set is running eastward at the D&RGW Burnham Yard in Denver Colorado on May 16th 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

The Final Spike Tour Train At Dunmore AB.

My wife called and said she'd seen a special train so the chase was on. Carrying export locomotives with trucks on heavy duty flatcars this high and wide was probably destined for Norfolk. As ye... (more)

Two sets of power, PA-1 1052 with E-7 1002 and GP-9 495 with F-7(A) 711 are waiting for Combine Train #2 the WABASH CANNONBALL and BANNER BLUE from St. Louis, Missouri. The two sets of power w... (more)

Here comes the Silverton. In weather conditions that could best be described as "atmospheric", a Denver & Rio Grande Western, Silverton mixed train slowly snakes its way north thr... (more)

The FGLK 2306 sits at Himrod in rough shape after a derailment that happened in July of 2022.

CSX Seaboard Air Line Heritage Engine at the Seaboard Air Line station in Hamlet

Photo says NP wreck near Ellensburg, Spring 61. Google image source indicates this is near Thorp, WA, but I'm unable to find a record of this incident online. Trying to find out more about this ... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)