On the anniversary of the tragic events of 9/11, a Metro North train leaves the city behind as the new Freedom Tower rises.

One of the most famous trains in the USA during its heyday, New York Central Train 26, The Twentieth Century Limited, behind two E8As and an E7B prepares to depart LaSalle Street Station Chicago o... (more)

BNSF 9248 pulls hard up the eastside of the famous Logan Hill in the Powder River Basin near Bill, Wyoming.

Union Pacific's 110 car OGCY (Ogden, UT - Cheyenne, WY) drag manifest climbs the Evanston Sub grade at Peterson, Utah.

A work extra has just gotten in the clear to allow MoPac's "Southerner" Train 8 to continue its rush toward St. Louis.

One of the best years for colorful fall leaves in Spanish Fork Canyon was in 1994. On Sept. 22nd, saturation is at its peak as Southern Pacific's MNGVC (Minntac, MN - Geneva, UT) ore train glides ... (more)

As a CB&Q switcher putters in Burlington's coach yard, GM&O Train 1, "The Limited," with E7 103A and E8 100A, leaves Chicago on Aug. 1, 1968, taken from railfan's favorite overlook -- Roosevelt Av... (more)

On a 4-track mainline Pennsy 2-10-4 class J1a 6403 has cut off from its train and is drifting toward the roundhouse for servicing and the crew to get off duty at Columbus, Ohio. The date was No... (more)

Very sad news out of Snowflake, AZ today as Catalyst Paper announced the permanent closure of its Snowflake recycle mill and its subsidiary railroad that serves the mill, the Apache Railway Compan... (more)

The eastbound Aerotrain makes a stop at Altoona. Note the PRR keystone is not on the pilot. Also that there were really no platforms in Altoona just walkways flush with the tracks. My good frie... (more)

Taken in the East Altoona pit with a PRR Police escort

Taken in the East Altoona pit with a PRR Police escort, 2 versions of PRR "heritage".

Rio Grande opted not to join Amtrak (but reluctantly did about 13 years later) and ran its own Rio Grande Zephyr between Denver and Salt Lake City, over one day, back the next, except on Wednesda... (more)

This is PRR's daily local, S71, which ran from Northumberland to Selinsgrove Jct., then out the Selinsgrove Secondary to the PP&L power plant in Shamokin Dam, PA. (coal loads). It then continued ... (more)

Virginian Railway 135 at Roanoke, VA in February 1957 sporting a thick coat of road grime. This 'motor' is preserved at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke. Bob Drake photo, collectio... (more)