The Dinkies. Three Metra gallery cars sit in the Milwaukee Road side of Union Station. Amtrak's territorial photography policy, so evident just a few yards away on the PRR side, se... (more)

The New Way And The Old Way. Rolling along the highway that made it obsolete, NN's passenger train returns to Ely. U.S. 50 now gets workers to the mine and copper ore to market, bu... (more)

All The Stops. The Arrow IIIs of NJ Transit trains 7257 make a quick stop at Elizabeth, just as they will at all the station stops on the way to Bay Head.

I Believe It Now. Last year when they announced that the Grafton & Upton would use MBTA coaches for Polar Express duty, local railfans were asking if there would be MBTA power as we... (more)

Why We Made The Trip. With admirers packed into Woodland Park, Espee 4449 demonstrates why so many people made the trek to central Michigan. From across the track, a Gratiot County sherif... (more)

Consolation Prize. I was bummed about having too many things to do to be able to get to this year's Rhode Island Air Show. As I was getting ready to leave, a phone call from my wif... (more)

15 minutes of "landscaping" made this shot possible

My first decent pan shot, at 1/13th sec.

After working an eight-hour day and in the midst of what would become a nine-hour drive to Pennsylvania, I needed a break from the endless miles of Interstate. The D-L obliged with several units ... (more)

A battle-scarred veteran, complete with mismatched number boards, switches out one of NEP's warehouses in Everett

Supply Run. Returning from the Grand Canyon, the GCRY recreates what the weekly supply run to the South Rim looked like in the 1940s. In those days, the Grand Canyon Village, like ... (more)

Daylight In The Dark. SP 4449 sits under a darkening sky in Owosso, with her lead truck derailed and on the ground. A number of steam men are going about the business of getting her... (more)

Not Quite The Phoebe Snow. Although the Lackawanna's flagship came off in 1966, for at least one weekend, through sleeper service returned to Scranton. This train would operate to Al... (more)

Bringing Up The Rear In Style. Back in 2009, the primary attraction was on the front of the train. But with a Super Dome and Skytop lounge bringing up the markers, the rear end of ... (more)