Westbound on the route of Amtrak's Cardinal, a deadhead move of 8 dead in tow Amtrak P40DC locomotives glides through St. Albans, westbound on the CSX Kanawha Subdivision. The locomotives are enro... (more)

Here you see Amtrak 156 making her way through Steamtown's 1860's era restoration shop on Shop Track 9. The train will continue through the shop, then the roundhouse and over the turntable to get ... (more)

A man reads a book, unaware of the spectacle in front of him never to be repeated. The West Chester railroad special pulls into 30th Street Station to head home to West Chester. Recently SEPTA dow... (more)

The Rio Grande Zephyr train #18 prepares to stop at the sturdy brick and tile passenger station at Provo. An EMD GP30 was added to the train at Salt Lake City due to a mechanical problem with an F... (more)

Now there's something you don't see every day! Pulled over on the side of US Route 130 was this tractor trailer carrying NJ Transit Arrow III Single MU no. 1308. Shortly after this photo was tak... (more)

San Francisco Bay Railroad #23 pulled the first cut of container cars loaded with support equipment for the 2012-13 America's Cup World Series sailboat races into Pier 80 during the media kick-off... (more)

Elk River Coal & Lumber shay #19 has five loads of logs en route from the lumber camp to Avoco, W. Va. on Nov. 24, 1961. They didn't build bridges, they just forded the creeks. A watchman ri... (more)

When I was first in New York City; the one time I was in the subway without my camera was the time a diesel powered work train passed by. Of all the luck! (Although it was on the wrong trac... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

The West Chester Railroad participated in the Lansdale Day events by running a special train, the "Lansdale Special", from West Chester to Lansdale, covering former Pennsylvania and Reading lines.... (more)

What was it the Engines said, Pilots touching,—head to head. Facing on the single track, Half a world behind each back? - Francis Bret Harte

Valley Railroad's newest steam engine #3025 is being pulled off of the West leg of the wye onto Track 3 in Old Saybrook. Locomotive 3025 is being turned for an upcoming Lerro Charter being hosted ... (more)

An FRA track geometry test train has stopped at the west end of Rio Grande's Thistle Yard. D&RGW business car 'Wilson McCarthy' is along for the ride, spotted near the location of 1983's mudslide ... (more)

A Rio Grande GP40-2 leads Amtrak's California Zephyr train #6 east through the Red Narrows of Spanish Fork Canyon.

United States Department of Transportation track geometry cars T-1 and T-3 (with Federal Railroad Administration staff on board) test Rio Grande's eastward main through Spanish Fork Canyon. D&RGW ... (more)