I find it fitting that the one and only train I saw on the 10 year anniversary of the split of Conrail would be a set of ex-CR SD45-2s. NS 1705 (ex-CR 6666), which was always my favorite Conrail e... (more)

Branch line railroading, Alaska style The ARR Palmer Turn runs light engine up the 10 mph Palmer Branch enroute to JD Steel at the end of the in service track to retrieve two empty gons. Se... (more)

Lightning races across the sky as the sound of thunder fills the air. The rain is coming down in sheets as I get soaked to the bone. A westbound has just rolled into Altoona and the EOTD can still... (more)

A brilliant bolt of purple lightning makes an awesome backdrop for the interlocking signals at CP-431 in Depew, NY

Even in the green waters of silt laden glacier fed lake it is still possible to get a reflection of ARR's Coastal Classic as it crosses a small trestle enroute to Seward

The phone rang far earlier than I had expected to notify me about our "stealth" departure from Williams. But that o-dark-thirty departure provided a bunch of us with this desert sunrise silhouett... (more)

A first for me, NS 5270 crosses the Raritan River Bridge with no train, possibly to switch Gerdau Amertisteel in Perth Amboy or just to head light up to Oak Island or elsewhere on the Chemical Coa... (more)

Near Miss!! This late nite storm sends lightning to the ground just missing the loaded rail cars inside the yard complex. If you... (more)

Sunset on the Raritan Bay.

An amazing light show over the Susquehanna River. I have another shot with a train streaking through it but the lightning wasn't nearly so interesting.

A rebuilt GP38-2 powered NS H8R wobbles its way towards Harrison beneath the Northeast Corridor on the Conrail Center Street Branch.

Amtrak 14 sits at the Oakland Jack London Square station. Not in view is the coach yard crew along with switcher AMTK 794 taking PV Silver Lariat off the end.

A thunderstorm that has blown in the from the east is sending reddish-colored lightning down to the ground right on top of the Sunset Route at the far eastern edge of Tucson. If memory serves me c... (more)

142 simmers in her own steam at Pete Lerro's Photo Charter

In October 1992 John Craft ran a series of charters on the C&TS. During the week, while all the engines were hot, CMO John Bush had the brainstorm of lining all the engines up in numerical order ... (more)