End Of The Day, End Of An Era The light in the sky is quickly fading on the evening of Thursday, April 13, 2023 while a southbound coal train heads up the grade into Gravette, AR on the Ka... (more)

An Amtrak Acela headed to Boston meets a regional bound for Washington while passing over the Gold Star Bridge at sunset.

As the sun sets on the KCS, KCS 4058 sits as the DPU of an M-ARSH freight on a cold night. At midnight, a crew is called to start the train on its journey to Shreveport, LA.

Morning Work. Palmetto Railways works the old Charleston Navy Base around where there's been a lot of new construction in preparation for the new Navy Base Intermodal Facility being constru... (more)

It's 0130 and nothing is southbound on the CN Iron Range sub, and nothing is southbound on the CN Rainy sub, but the northern lights above were full of action here at the Ramshaw diamond.

A busy afternoon in Laws. The little Southern Pacific Yard in Laws, California suddenly gets a bit busy with Locomotive #18 in the background freshly fueled and watered and ready to take th... (more)

The "Slim Princess" steps onto the table. Watching the track interface carefully, the fireman on Southern Pacific Locomotive #18 carefully marshals his locomotive onto the gallows... (more)

Heading out into the Owens Valley. A Southern Pacific Conductor watches from the back platform of Combine/Caboose 401 as his short mixed train leaves the south yard in Laws, California, hea... (more)

Under a plethora of stars on a clear Montana night, the Northern Pacific-era cantilevered signal announces the dispatcher’s decision to route a BNSF train west on Montana Rail Link’s main line... (more)

N&W 1218 has an empty hopper train in tow as she roars up-grade at Shawsville Virginia west of Roanoke. This was one of many memorable photo opportunities during the 1987 National Railway Historic... (more)

Heritage train rides of eastern have been completed and the preserved class Dr12 diesel electric locomotive number 2216 has returned to the home sheds of Haapamäki museum locomotive society as th... (more)

Hay-burners and oil-burners. A young horsewoman with a pack mule in tow, crosses the Southern Pacific tracks near the depot in Laws, California, headed for the nearby hills with supplies fo... (more)

After a long interchange with Norfolk Southern’s Luther Yard, Terminal 101 heads through the industrial backstreets of St. Louis as they crawl along 2nd Street with both of TRRA’s SD60I’s in... (more)

SP 9 makes the last steam run on the SP narrow gauge, from Owenyo to Keeler and return. It was retained as a backup for the single diesel on the line, and that morning the diesel returned on a (st... (more)

Moving museum pieces. With the exception of the museum's Brill Motor Car, all of the other pieces of railroad equipment at California's Laws Museum are normally static displays. Many of t... (more)