Floating Train

The Alaska Railroad has no physical connection to the rest of the North American rail network. But that doesn't prevent them from having a robust interchange. The ... (more)

Locomotives as far as the eye can see at NRE.

Need an apartment? Sitting within a few feet of CSX's shortline to Cincinnati are three nicely restored N&W cabs designed for apartment living. At approximately two hundred square feet of living... (more)

A hopper of hardwood chips, which will take a crooked route from Royal Blue, TN to Canton, NC. Originally built by Champion International, the mill has changed hands several times to the current o... (more)

Although we'll never again see fallen-flag boxcars rumbling across the great PRR bridge at Safe Harbor, we soon might be able to walk across it. The conversion of the long-abandoned bridge to hik... (more)

Cuba City was located on the narrow gauge Galena and Southern Railroad which was acquired by the C & NW. General and then President Grant and his wife road the train several times from Galena, I... (more)

Business cars, including a full-length dome, pass through one of the big cuts at Marcel on the rear of a 991 train.

A green signal lights up as a westbound coal train is about to pass.

Amtrak's Starlight arrives at Oakland with a beautiful observation on the rear.

A modern cupola caboose brings up the rear of an eastbound BN manifest at Tuscor, MT.

At sunset on the Santa Fe's Needles District, a hot pig train hustles away from us toward a major climb at Ash Hill.

View into the control room of the Centro d'Esercizio Pollegio (CEP) (operation center Pollegio) of the SBB. From here, the Gotthard line from the borders to Italy, via the mountain and Base Tunnel... (more)

The white-hatted foreman is down on his haunches to better scrutinize the progress of tie renewal on eastbound No. 1 Track. Tie-handling machine No. 1041's crew is manipulating some freshly creos... (more)

Fallen flag boxcars in pre-graffiti days lead Conrail's N5B caboose No. 22874 over the old stone arch bridge at the confluence of the Chickies (or Chiques) Creek and the Susquehanna River. The 22... (more)

Four years ago yesterday, the Oregon Rail Heritage Center opened up in Portland, Oregon, officially giving the public an legal interactive setup to view the city's three steam engines in one locat... (more)