While one crew works on cutting off the twisted rail, a backhoe moves one of the derailed coal cars off of the tracks. While having a derailment in the middle of a populated location could have be... (more)

Happy Independence Day. For this year's Fireworks Express trip to Hockessin, the crew of Wilmington & Western 0-6-0 58 experimented with a new type of fuel. After the fireworks get shoveled... (more)

We decided to have a lil photo shoot at BGRM to celebrate the fourth in a railfan kind of way... It's handy having the keys to the loco when you want to set up a shot!

While the City of Pittsburgh fireworks display goes on a westbound autorack train heads down the Mon Line looking for people near the track along the way

An NYSW train is tied down at BD as fireworks from a AA baseball game between the Binghamton Mets and New Hampshire Fisher Cats light up the sky to the west.

A thunderstorm passes to the south of Collier Yard on CSX's North End Sub (former ACL).

A CSX gevo sits in the westward siding as mother nature puts on one nice light show.

CSXT 845, a lone ES44AC spends the night in the Westward Siding as an impressive lightning storm stirs up trouble in the background.

As a small storm cell moves across the sky, occasionally lighting up the night time sky with lightning, CSX H707 spends the evening in the yard at South Charleston with a massive train of two cars... (more)

A Harsco Track Technologies Railgrinder creeps westbound through the quiet town of Marmet grinding on main one.

On a late April night, a severe thunderstorm passes by overhead while IT 2301 idles through the night. In my near five months living here in the Midwest, this storm was probably the worst... But i... (more)

There's more to railroading then just trains. A welder works on a frog as the track department make some repairs.

The Ballast train sits on uneven rail as track work goes on into the night. The pressure is on to get Main One open. 26T, an East bound stack train is waiting just to the West to be the first trai... (more)

A supercell rotates upon itself in a fury of lightning for hours on end as it makes it's way eastward throughout the night. It is amazing the such a power storm can be so tightly packaged that the... (more)

The weld of rails.The colliquation of steel inside the bain-marie.The fluid metal will switch the rails after 5 minutes about.