A yard job works all day at CSX Parsons Yard (ex-Chesapeake & Ohio).

Metra 134 shoves a train towards Chicago as it pulls out of Lake Forest. The unit has a fresh paint job due to being rebuilt recently. The conductor told us that he thought that this was the uni... (more)

About an hour before thunderstorms would arrive on this hot 95-degree afternoon, BNSF 4678 passes by the Kansas City Union Depot with a string of grain cars.

Sitting at what was once the largest passenger and freight station in the world with 32 tracks for service, RPCX 738 and some passenger cars sit on the few remaining tracks that barely see service... (more)

Norfolk & Western 2-8-8-2 number 2175 leads a westbound 76 car freight near Elliston Virginia in 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Passenger train from Ostseebad Kühlungsborn-West to Bad Doberan is running through the forest near Vorder Bollhagen.

Diesel railcar ALn 668 has just left the station of Candela-S. Agata di Puglia, on the single track non-electrified line Foggia-Potenza, here passing across an eolic park.

Norfolk & Western 2-6-6-4 1201 leads 80 cars westward through Roanoke Virginia in 1936. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Virginian Railway 2-10-10-2 number 801 leads 150 cars westbound doing 10 MPH at Roanoke Virginia on August 7th 1932. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Waiting for another train. I lucked into this BNSF movement of two Stadler FLIRT's for DART. They will make the trip from Salt Lake to Dallas over the old Rio Grande main.

A neat looking A-B-A F7 set is seen at the Handley West Virginia yard in 1953. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

A double stack train drops downgrade at Friendship Road in a heavy thunderstorm. A relatively new and shiny AC44C6M leads the train as it heads towards a crew swap in Roanoke.

VGN 2-8-8-2s 739 and 710 are seen leaving Page West Virginia with a freight in 1953. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

From what I understand, the Stockton to Provo BNSF trackage right trains only run about three times a week. And with that, the schedule is kind of all over the place. So when I stumble across one ... (more)

The steam locomotive #11 from the Sumberharjo sugar mill is a Ducroo & Brauns from 1924. The loco is seen in the yard waiting for the next shunting duties.