A westbound Chesapeake & Ohio hopper train powers through the sweeping curve at Crozet, Virginia.

A Westbound unit grain train is seen just after cresting the 5213-foot summit at Marias Pass. Summit Mountain, which has a peak of 8770 feet is seen in the background. John F. Stevens first explor... (more)

Royal American Shows first section westbound for the Twin Cities......

Sad sight to see this locomotive sidelined along with the frac-sand business at Vista Sand.

Beginning its first run over Sherman Hill after a lengthy restoration, Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 leads a passenger special destined for a 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike and completion ... (more)

Ready for battle! With the fuel and water tanks fully topped and all crew positions fully manned, the White Pass Rotary Fleet sits at Glacier Siding (MP 14.1) awaiting the order to move fro... (more)

Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 leads a passenger special, along with Northern No. 844, through wide open Wyoming countryside just west of Thayer on May 5, 2019. The passenger train is headed to Ut... (more)

The beat up caboose and the new hoppers at the tail end of the Pointe St-Charles switcher provide quite a difference in appearance as they enter the yard with grain empties.

A westbound Southern Pacific freight train treads the long, elevated viaduct approach for MacArthur Bridge over the Mississippi River at East St. Louis, Illinois, in December 1984. Powering the tr... (more)

I Took the Path Less Taken

I mean, there’s literally no trail, and it’s not easy to get here.

Birmingham Southern Alco HH900, Nº82 was pulled out from it's canopy on November 8, 2020 for a photo charter and is seen at the Calera & Shelby depot in Calera, Alabama. 82 holds a title in severa... (more)

Painted in WC heritage livery, CN ET44AC 3069 is leading train G846 east between Park Gate and Swan Landing and is about to head into the Brule Tunnel.

Early Conrail action finds an empty perishable train climbing toward Horseshoe Curve on the four track Broad Way. The weeds in the track of one of the busiest railroads in the world illustrates th... (more)