Painterly afternoon light filters through the vibrant forests at Montreal Falls, Ont., as CN's Agawa Canyon Tour Train rounds this iconic trestle on the former Algoma Central Railway.

Ex-BN 6008 SD7 parked outside the Cargill facility on the south side of Pipestone, MN. Originally GN 558, showing here with MNTX reporting marks which I am going to assume were temporarily applied... (more)

Hudson Terminal Railroad's 75-year-old S1 moves a cut of oil cans just after sunrise.

Metra 157 pushes a inbound under the pedestrian bridge at Hubbard Woods. This bridge is seen in a clip from the movie Home Alone.

I always wanted to photograph one of these F40M-2s as soon as I saw photos of one as they were delivered to the Canadian American Railroad, an Iron Roads shortline whose hard luck story was just a... (more)

D&H Baldwin RF16 Shark # 1205 sits outside the Minneapolis Northfield and Southern railways shop with its paint fading fast. They looked sharp when in service on the D&H. too bad this is not in ... (more)

North Shore Scenic's Duluth Zephyr passing by Fitgers brewery complex along Lake Superior.

The Beer Railroad: Digging through old photos, it seems that in my youth, I spent lots of time at the "Manny", which was owned by the Anheuser-Busch brewery in South St. Louis. MRS was a ne... (more)

The "other" 844 leads their train & empty speeders back to the depot after the second run of the day.

The Great Lakes Central's OSTN rolls over a swollen Shiawassee River in Vernon, Michigan behind a trio of EMD's on a dreary October afternoon. GLC utilizes trackage rights over the HESR to get fro... (more)

Beavers in the Desert A westbound trainload of Minnesota grain for the Central Valley storms out of Warren, California. The CP motors are no stranger to mountain grades but look a bit ou... (more)

BYOB
Sleeping Car No. 470 was built by the Pullman Company in Detroit in 1889 as a 12-section tourist sleeper (third class) for use on the three-foot gauge Denver & Rio Grande. The car w... (more)

Narrow gauge sleeping car
Sleeping Car No. 470 was built by Pullman Company in Detroit in 1889 as a 12-section tourist sleeper (third class) for use on the Denver & Rio Grande. The car w... (more)

The Beer Railroad: Digging through old photos, it seems that in my youth, I spent lots of time at the "Manny", which was owned by the Anheuser-Busch brewery in South St. Louis. MR... (more)

Wisconsin Lite Rail Rule G violation? This Davenport 35-tonner is on display at a liquor store in northeast Wisconsin. No frame number visible so I'm not sure who originally owned this &q... (more)