This is the New York to Detroit through train (which will skirt through southern Ontario on its way to the Motor City) passing Bannerman Castle in Beacon NY.. I want to thank railfan Ray Wetzel fo... (more)

This is the only time I've ever seen an E60CH and a P42DC together (although this was SOP in the late 90s, early 00s). The train is the "Three Rivers" from New York to Pittsburgh (and on to Chica... (more)

A 1959 GP20 (the world's 2nd and one of ten the WP rostered) sits among 1978 Ford Pickups and Thunderbirds in Speed Yard. This was a utility yard for making quick moves either into Ford, or for th... (more)

This EL slug began life as Erie #1150 in April of 1951 where it was a class MFSB-15A. Interestingly it was delivered after 1151-1161, which came the year before. In July of 1965, it was rebuilt i... (more)

Delivered to the Chesapeake & Ohio by ALCO in early 1944, K4 Kanawha 2-8-4 sits on display at Broad Street Station (now home to the Science Musuem of Virginia). #2732 was one of a fleet of 2-8-4s ... (more)

Summit Excursion train #45 as seen from the Lido Deck of one of the majestic cruise ships that grace the Alaskan coast this time of year loads on the Broadway Dock for another exciting trip up to ... (more)

The last GP40-2 on the UP roster still in SP colors, although patched and tagged, crosses Central Avenue in Nickerson Gardens (this is the area for which South Central gets its name, as this is Ce... (more)

Amtrak Springfield service is being handled by the Roger Williams set of cabbed RDC1s. Built as an answer to the lightweight trains of the late 1950s, the Roger Williams cabs outlasted those train... (more)

The hulks of a UP SD60M and a GP60 wait at Pacific Rail Dismantlers in the old Colton Yard to be cut up. These units were wrecked in the San Timoteo Canyon Runaway of August 26, 2006. The train wa... (more)

Every year, during Del Mar racing season, one set of Amtrak Surfliners are broken up to add a car each to the others sets (plus three more cars to one super set). To make up for the missing train ... (more)

Light engines (including the "Conrai" U33B) to Saucon move away from my dad as he works his Pentax K1000. The train is within the interlocking limits of W 3rd street which was remotely controlled... (more)

National Locomotive was a start up locomotive rebuilder on the propery of the Morristown & Erie Railroad in Morristown NJ. They had a bunch of retired Norfolk & Western RS36s and RS11s that they w... (more)

The Conrail train from Phillipsburg was well known in NJ due to its open porch observation car, a relic of a bygone era. Coming east in the morning however that observation car was up against the ... (more)

Having finished most of its move across the Fairplex parking lot, Big Boy 4014 sits across from a piece of the panel track that was utilized to get it there.

The next mine run is about to begin as USG's rail crew heads light towards their train on a warm November afternoon.