The LA&L uses a pair of Alcos to switch lumber cars at Matthews & Fields Lumber in Henrietta, New York. The crew has picked up the empty centerbeam and dropped a loaded boxcar, and the conductor n... (more)

Quitting cold Turkey

A derailment brought an abrupt end to a week's steam charter in Turkey which damaged engine, tender, cars and track. Fortunately, it was the last afternoo... (more)

The helper engineer on Santa Fe 2943 is in full dynamics brakes as the westbound Harbor Train slowly goes down the 2.2% north track with one big car on the end.

New "Tango" train for the Appenzeller Bahnen from StadlerRail, on lowfloor transport cars at Gossau (SG). The Appenzeller Bahnen ordered 11 of this one meter gauge "streetcar trains... (more)

The last batch of Erie built ES43ACmi locomotives for Indian Railways in India await pickup from GE Transportation's Erie Plant.

A GP7U works the Chicago Junction Railroad, a new operation by Progressive Rail after taking over operations from the Chicago Terminal Railroad. The line serves an industrial park near O'Hare Inte... (more)

A vintage model Mack is seen with historic freight equipment during a night shoot by Fred Jones and John Tully during the 2018 CSRR Railfan Weekend.

”When Empty Return To…”

Well, maybe not this time. This Air Products and Chemicals liquid oxygen tank car is on a one-way trip to an appointment with a torch. The PC mill gon that’... (more)

After a summer storm rolled through Chama, we were rewarded with a rainbow over the Cumbres and Toltec shops.

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

Noticing a few roster shots on the site today, I thought I would take a chance in posting this shot. The beautifully restored 200,000th car out of the Pullman Standard Bessemer, Ala. plant. The NS... (more)

”Better By A Dam Site”

Southwestern Georgia’s Chattahoochee Industrial Railroad survived part of its early (1960’s) existence by transporting materials for the construction of a lo... (more)

BNSF's office car special passes a long-retired ATSF boxcar on its run south of Las Animas, CO.

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

A CSX pull down job drags a cut of cars out of the hump bowl at CSX's Queensgate Yard in Cincinnati.

Locomotives:
CSX 8452 SD40-2