"Totaled at Toelles"

On October 19th, 2024, Amtrak Phase III Heritage P42DC 145 sits on the rear of southbound Hartford Line Shuttle Train 417 as crews work to clear a total... (more)

Details are still a little sketchy, but on Monday, 12/23/24, Union Pacific ore train OUTS1 (Iron Springs, UT (near Cedar City) to the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor) ran through a red signal at Con... (more)

The newest NS heritage unit, honoring the Delaware and Hudson, leads its first train after the paint booth. 34J is seen here departing the IHB and entering the NS Chicago Line in the shadow of for... (more)

201's train pulls through the siding at Canmore.

Overview of Rebuilding. The more than 130 year-old Park Avenue Viaduct around the MTA Metro-North Railroad Harlem-125 Street Station in New York, New York, is undergoing a multi-year rebuil... (more)

Mt Baker sits in the background as BNSF 8580 leads a Roberts Bank coal empty south through the Skagit Valley and Conway, WA on March 17th, 2024.

To go with our first snowfall of the year in SE Wisconsin, here is a shot of CNW 8546 leading a train thru St. Francis, WI on CNW's New Line in December of 1994. A little hoarfrost in the trees ad... (more)

"Family Day" at CSX's Tilford Yard in Atlanta, Georgia, resembled a county fair. They had all sorts of carnival-type rides, a petting zoo, food trucks, games, a locomotive simulator, alo... (more)

SUPER PUMPKIN? NS and Relco went to great lengths to make this a non-locomotive. After sitting all day to allow trains to pass this rail train shoved from Abingdon to pick up rail and had a tota... (more)

My personal favorite part of National Train Day was seeing SPS 700 under steam again. This was the first time seen under power since the rebuild, which started in 2015. Hopefully we'll get to see ... (more)

Earlier this week, Metra debuted F40PH #120 in a brand new paint scheme saluting veterans across the United States Armed Forces. Here, the handsome loco is seen arriving at the Joliet Transportati... (more)

With heavy fog from Lake Superior still lifting, we see Canadian Pacific, CP 9111 SD9043mac and 8778 ES44AC that had rear end a train that was already sitting on the siding at Coldwell, Ontario. T... (more)

P20 at North Dynon MFT ready for scrapping. At the last moment this locomotive was saved and donated to 707 Operations by Pacific National for preservation.

Clinchfield At Church. On the night of Saturday, November 18, 2017, a very special "post ending" to the day of the CSX The Santa Train was arranged in Huntdale, North Carolina as Clinchfiel... (more)

Missouri Pacific bought a batch of 18 PA-3's in 1952 numbered 8019-8036. One of the MoPac pair leads the Southerner out of Little Rock, Arkansas for its overnight run to St. Louis, Missouri on ... (more)