HOOSAC TUNNEL DETOUR: Due to a small collapse inside Pan Am Southern's Hoosac Tunnel, some trains are currently being detoured between East Deerfield, Massachusetts and Hoosick Junction, Ne... (more)

This may be the last or second to last, of the 5 SD70ACe's for QNS&L. Tacoma Rail facilitated it's escape from Progress Rail, and then dropped it of at BNSF's door step on a transfer job. Shou... (more)

The Norfolk Southern Penn Central heritage unit leads eastbound intermodal 206 as it passes through Conneaut, Ohio. The train is crossing over Conneaut Creek and the trackage of the Bessemer & Lak... (more)

Conrail’s Cement Secondary local works at the Hercules Cement Mill in Stockertown, Pennsylvania. Veteran engineer Sherwood Singer, who hired out on the Lehigh & New England, invited us up into the... (more)

Making its much anticipated daylight trek across Ohio, NS 66T 19 and its 14,000 ton, 100 cans of liquid black crude for Reybold, DE split the Pennsy style PC194.7 intermediates at North Robinson o... (more)

A stack train that had been "trapped" for hours by work curfews finally leaves Las Vegas. Today has been a busy day for trains as curfews kept traffic going in bunches with 10 trains.

Having just emerged from the eastern portal of the short tunnel under W Mt Royal Ave, Q438-19 is east on the single main, Baltimore Terminal Subdivision, as it passes the MTA Light Rail University... (more)

A northbound MILW trackage rights train was crossing the Steel Bridge into Portland Union Station.

Union Pacific freight train M-NPWC2-22 passes through the iconic Mormon Rocks, dusted with snow, as it ticks off the last few miles of its journey from North Platte, Nebraska, to West Colton Yard,... (more)

Loading stones by hand into railroad cars in unbearable heat is really very hard work for these Burmese kids. Just imagine such a scene today in our countries.

This pictures appears to be from the same day as my previous post. This is a westbound, probably JB-3 or JSA-1. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

"The Last Run of the GG-1," a special train operated by NJT in October of 1983; tickets were $1. The Gs look a bit odd under the modern cat poles. For one last time, we rode behind a G... (more)

CSX train Q367 (Selkirk, NY - Chicago, IL) passes through Buffalo's Tift Street Yard with a pair of EMD SD40s leading the long consist of mixed freight. The lead unit, 4384, has a special nose pai... (more)

Sunrise at Scales. Just moments after the sun crested the hills to the east, a V&T freight charges north past Scales on its morning run to Gold Hill, and ultimately, the mining town of Virg... (more)

In light snow and sub-freezing conditions a ground person updates the crew of Charger 4628 as it sits in the Denver Union Station while passengers load. These Chargers are impressive, with a slig... (more)