Conrail train CGAL (Corning, NY - Allentown, PA) passes the former Lehigh Valley station in the LV shop town of Sayre, Pennsylvania. The yard and engine servicing facilities are gone, but the mass... (more)

A rare photo of Milwaukee Road F7(A) 89-C in original Lightning paint livery at Council Bluffs, Iowa in June 1957. From my slide collection, Photographer R E Ranks.

Photog Chione....from my collection......Train 86 Savanna/Milwaukee does it's SO/PU work at S.Beloit Yard...Back in the 60's I used to fire for Maurice Vaa/Frank Hobbins/Jerry Knickel Sr./Floyd Ba... (more)

Locomotives await the cutting torch at the soon to be closed NRE Dixmoor Shop.

Standing on the crumbling abutments of Milwaukee Road’s impressive curved bridge over the Missouri River, we watch a distant storm skirt the ghost town of Lombard, Montana, at sunset on June 29, 2... (more)

Not much remains of former St. Lawrence & Hudson 5651, now sporting GOMX markings, as it sits in the storage line near the PowerRail Locomotive Services facility near Monroe, Georgia.

The CSX OCS, running as P001, slows down to the crew change point on the old main at Wauhatchie. While the two GEVO's were a bit of a bummer, the main draw for me was the debut of the newest addit... (more)

I can only imagine how fast they were going here. The stretch between Stockton and Faust on the Lynndyl Subdivision is flat and strait, a real race track. Not sure if the passenger speed in the la... (more)

Photog Chione....from my collection.......what was left of the Olympian Hiawatha readies to depart Minneapolis for Aberdeen with whats left of the passenger trains from Minneapolis west after the ... (more)

Late afternoon in Elmira, New York finds Conrail train CGAL (Corning, NY - Allentown, PA) approaching the Chemung River on elevated trackage on the Southern Tier line. The Elmira Transportation Ce... (more)

Kane Creek Geology

In the land of the Arches one might get the impression from the geology surrounding the inbound potash local of the origins of these mythical formation... (more)

Just after sunrise, a northbound Amtrak Acela Express, led by AMTK No. 2003, climbs the grade between Marcus Hook and Highland Ave stations in Chester, PA.

Lots of infrastructure along this st... (more)

12 minutes until 0700 hours, March 2nd of 2019 and most Monday through Friday'ers are sleeping in to start the weekend. Folks who don't have a steady schedule are probably awake, sipping their cof... (more)

Storm approaching - from the west!

Union Pacific's Salt Lake Cities North Yard Dead line. In a sea of SD70M's are at least four Gensets UPY 2734, 2757, 2753, and another I can't see the number. Kind of ironic they are in Salt Lake ... (more)