Speeding from Boston MA all the way to Norfolk VA, Amtrak ACS-64 622 is pulling Northeast Regional train 93. The train is skirting the shoreline of an inlet, and the flock of Canada Geese ... (more)

This MP15DC is owned by Webb Asset Management, although it wears the logo of Birmingham Terminal (complete with a dragon on it), to whom WAMX 1590 is leased. As might be discerned from its paint ... (more)

In 1966, the Diesel Division of General Motors of Canada Ltd. (GMD) constructed eight GP40TC locomotives, essentially GP40 diesels on SD40 frames to accommodate Head End Power (HEP) equipment, for... (more)

Amid a near-constant stream of S-, Q- and Z-symbolled intermodal trains, it was a welcome relief to find a unit train of loaded ethanol tank cars snaking through a colorful Santa Ana Canyon. BNSF... (more)

Sun Link, also known as the Tucson Streetcar, is a single-line streetcar system in Tucson, Arizona, United States, that began service in July 2014. The system's 3.9-mile (6.3 km) route connects t... (more)

Warrenton River Terminal of Rayland, Ohio, specializes in the transloading, storage, and handling of metallurgical and thermal coal, sand (construction and frac), fertilizer, aggregates (construct... (more)

Just south of the Spruce Siding, BNSF Railway loaded coal train C-ATMCRD0-19 passes between the old bridge abutments from a long-since removed Santa Fe bridge that crossed the original Denver & Ri... (more)

As 4-car Amtrak train 28 (with P42DC 191 for power), the Portland to Spokane section of the Empire Builder, loads passenger in Vancouver (a whopping 10 miles 2255-mile into its journey to C... (more)

There are a lot of interesting locomotives at Amtrak's Wilmington Maintenance Facility: stored HHP-8s (as well as a single GE 80-ton and a rebuilt SW9 [now called an SW1000]), brand-new ALC-42 di... (more)

Recently arrived Amtrak ALC-42 diesels 320 and 322 are getting checked out and set up for service at the carrier's Wilmington Maintenance Facility. These two locomotives, constructed by Siemens A... (more)

Union Pacific's Marlboro Local, powered by GP40P-2 1375 and GP60 1083, switches tank cars full of polyol at FXI, which manufactures foam mattresses. (Orange, California – February 7, 202... (more)

Union Pacific Railroad's latest locomotive paint scheme has, in my opinion (and I know you all care about my opinion!), one major flaw: The railroad has decided to eliminate the elegant &q... (more)

Wearing the Union Pacific Railroad's latest locomotive paint scheme (with a smaller American flag, relocated to the side of the nose, a large roadname where the flag used to be, no more lightning ... (more)

The Old Saybrook Station's signs are jumping the gun a bit, as it is not actually "boarding" time for the two CDOT Shoreline trains, as Amtrak Acela Express 2153, speeding ... (more)

Amtrak train 56, the northbound Vermonter, departed Washington DC in the morning behind AMTK ACS-64 652 pulling six cars (for those keeping score at home: AMTK 82531, 82748, 82691, 82782, ... (more)