As the sun sets behind the Wasatch Mountains, the constant battle against gravity continues as a train struggles up the 2.4% grade to the summit. Even with four big units up front and a DPU at the... (more)

Nee VGN, ex-NH, ex-PC

For reasons unknown, this train was proceeding very slowly; partial evidence is the crew member standing in the open front doorway.

Virginian Railway had some interesting electric power as seen on this coal drag at Covel, WV. There was a matching pair on the tail end of this train. Unfortunately, these disappeared after the ... (more)

Summertime in St. Albans.. Eastbound empties wait for the signal on a miserably humid summer evening.

Northern Pacific 6506C is preparing to depart Seattle on the North Coast Limited. The Union Pacific station can be seen in the background.

Pennsy power from F-M and BLH waits at Columbus.

Coors Light - eat your heart out!  A Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: ASEA AEM-7DC
Location: Hamilton, New Jersey, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 937
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: February 22, 2011

On the left, the Nellie Bly pauses at Trenton, named after the globetrotting intrepid newswoman of the early 20th Century. On the right, possibly PRR #4666, a JG Brill OEG 350 Diesel-electric Do... (more)

An A-B set of E6's get hostled at Jersey City. Ansco-Color restoration

Empire Builder ready to depart Seattle.

Southern Pacific GP9 3353, seen in San Luis Obispo, California, on April 3, 1983, was built in May 1956 as SP subsidiary-Texas & New Orleans 430. When renumbered into the SP system in 1965, it wa... (more)

For the RP.net rivet counters: The prototype GG1 from 1935 featured a riveted body, seen here in this Ansco-Color view as the train makes a stop at South Amboy. Lurking a few hundred feet behind ... (more)

Pennsy FM C16-4 is leaving the tunnel at Gallitzin, PA trailing lots of engine smoke in the summer of 1960.