15T exits the darkness of Lookout Mountain Tunnel with the Illinois Terminal heritage unit leading. The green paint almost matches the green foliage.

The silence of the night is interrupted by the roar of Northbound intermodal train 23N as it tops the Raccoon Mountain Grade at Whiteside, TN. Seen from inside the portal of 160+ year old Whitesid... (more)

Robert A.Newbigen Photo from my collection......

The lone DP motor shoves the rear of a Barstow, CA to Tulsa, OK manifest train through Park Moabi as a thunder storm hits the Mohave Valley area.

A Barstow to Tulsa manifest train leaves the Needles area as spring rain shower forms over the Mohave Valley area; seen from Park Moabi. With the division point changing to the state line, is sect... (more)

Tests of a new two-level passenger car

BC Rail heritage unit CN 3115 leads CN X306. It will tie down in a couple of miles and a new crew will not take it east until after dark.

"Traverso" train RABe 526 # 111/211 of the Südostbahn (SOB), running as "Treno Gottardo" IR 2414 of the line IR 46 from Bellinzona over the Gotthard mountain line to Zürich, is... (more)

A conductor holds on to CSX locomotive #6460 as the engineer moves it from the siding to the main. After moving some cars around, this crew is finish for today and will tie this train down.

This looks worse than it actually was. BNSF train B-BIRLAC3-12A, a baretable train (empty intermodal cars), heading from Birmingham AL to Los Angeles, was going to set some of these cars out on a... (more)

UP 1743 and UP 1657 arrive back at Beverly with "the drag."

Number three from my Covid gallery of pictures close to home. The BNSF makes its single track ABS entry into the Bay Area via Franklin Canyon. Fortunately much of the surrounding country side ha... (more)

Historic locomotive of the chilean railways - Breda Marelli E-32 - leading a freight train from Santiago to Talca city.