After switching cars on the southern part of the line, northbound HMCR locomotives 3986 and 9554 are returning light to the HMCR yard in downtown Huntsville, AL. The locomotives are crossing Pinh... (more)

St Albans to Montreal Qc Canadian National #323 eases across the trestle at the entrance to Missisquoi Bay( Lake Champlain) on a breezy September afternoon.

An eastbound on the wooden trestle over Sulphur Lake just west of Morton has been near the top of my list of shots I'd like to capture. Things finally lined up with a sunny morning, a flexible wo... (more)

After a twelve-year absense, steam is back in the Smokies! Great Smoky Mountains Railroad consolidation #1702 made its first test run along the mainline on Friday, July 22 (7/22-coincidentally the... (more)

HMCR 8527 (in SLRG paint) and sister 8560 (in LMX paint) lead a five car train north across Pinhook Creek in downtown Huntsville, AL. The train will soon enter the HMCR downtown yard and end its ... (more)

This is a pretty rare sight and one that will be gone, at least in this form, in less that 2 years. This Tacoma Rail train, is running across the former Milwaukee Road mainline trestle, and forme... (more)

On March 9, 2012 NECR ran an extra train to pick up some cars at the AES Thames Plant in Montville CT.

Drone shot of Tennessee Southern train 101 heads south for Florence, AL as it crosses over the Little Butler Creek

Saint Louis-San Francisco 863, the first of 279 B30-7’s turned out GE, rolls across a short trestle in Carrollton, Texas, on May 2, 1979, headed for Fort Worth. Built in 1977, the 3,000-hp dash-... (more)

Saint LouIs-San Francisco Train 139 has come down from Oklahoma on June 24, 1978, 68 cars, mostly grain hoppers, tank cars for the Gulf, seven empties and a caboose, all behind GP38-2 685. Rattlin... (more)

An eastbound Kyle grain train begins the trek across Sand Creek on a wood trestle west of Siebert, Colorado, on May 6, 2014. Two former Southern Pacific EMD SD45T-2s power the train on Rock Island... (more)

The A&W heads into Sanford for a morning of switching. The A&W is an "original" shortline being chartered in the late 1890s to run about 25 miles from Sanford to Lillington NC. In the mo... (more)

Its trip to Salina from the Colorado mainline at Gypsum almost over, a very short local crosses the through truss bridge over the Smoky Hill River. For many years MP ran scheduled local freights ... (more)

San Manuel Morning

After two days of railfanning the Copper Basin we headed down to San Manuel on good authority that the SMARRCO would be running a train up to the interchange. ... (more)