This looks like a Penn Central train, but a close look shows that the black E8 on the point carries its new Amtrak number, 279. The northbound corridor run out of Washington is about to duck under... (more)

A Penn Central Silverliner has just passed over a rural grade crossing about 10 miles west of Lancaster, on its way to Harrisburg.

A westbound Trailer Van train climbs the mountain, just 10 days into Conrail ownership of the railroad.

Norfolk and Western F7As 3725 and 3667 rest in the engine terminal at the CN Yard on the Windsor riverfront while CN S7 8221 switches the yard. The GM Renaissance Center is near completion across... (more)

On a misty early spring day, a pair of Reading Century 424s lead an eastbound piggyback train along the freight line parallel to the Schuylkill Expressway on the outskirts of Philadelphia. I think... (more)

The caboose of the Toledo Hauler passes the Chitwood Covered Bridge over the Yaquina River. Southern Pacific's Toledo Branch will follow the Yaquina from here to the end of the line at Toledo.

A thick winter fog off Long Island Sound hangs over the New Haven Railroad's Cedar Hill engine terminal in New Haven, CT, days after the Penn Central takeover. In the foreground are a trio of EF-4... (more)

A rediscovered negative shows PRR K4sa 612 sitting at the South Amboy engine terminal on a hot June day. The engine had arrived early with a 12 car train from Bay Head. K4s 5379 sits behind. An em... (more)

Heading back to Powder River Basin for another load of coal, a Burlington Northern coal train follows the North Platte River through Wendover Canyon between Wendover and Cassa, Wyoming, on July 18... (more)

In early 1969 the Burlington Route took delivery on an order of 15 SD45s that wore this new color scheme that anticipated the impending Burlington Northern merger. Three of them headed up this eas... (more)

A Canadian Pacific newsprint car in the green pine tree with script lettering scheme rolls through Valley Junction, Pennsylvania.

Amtrak 41's bug-splattered nose meets the ancient semaphores still protecting Bernal, a hundred years after they were installed.

Freshly painted Soo Line box cars are nearly ready for revenue service in Shops Yard in September of 1983.

An RF&P TOFC train heads south past Potomac Yards. This train was most likely 171, the Orange Blossom Special. 171 originated on Conrail in South Kearny, NJ and terminated in Tampa, FL on... (more)

Dallas Union Terminal in January 1964. Santa Fe (ATSF) E8A #87 on train No.11 the Kansas Cityan, Rock Island (CRI&P) E6A #630 on train No.17 the Twin Star Rocket, and the Colorado & Southern E5A ... (more)