PRR DD-1 #3936 (built 1911) and to the left - PRR 4-6-2 K4s Pacific #3750 (built 1920) - as displayed in front of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania on a brisk day in March with the season's fina... (more)

BNSF (ex-ATSF) Bluebonnet GP60 #160 leads the Sacramento Local through Stockton followed by another ex-ATSF Bluebonnet GP60, BNSF 161.

The power behind the plow: White Pass #73. The antithesis of White Pass #69 is the beautiful Mikado you see here. This is White Pass Locomotive #73. It is quite literally THE last word i... (more)

One of the reasons EMD came to dominate the diesel business is the outstanding service they provided to the railroads even after they sold the engines. This extended to designing the locomotives p... (more)

The power behind the plow: White Pass #69. Upon viewing one of my photos of this locomotive, my colleague, Dennis Livesey once quipped: "Now there's a face only a mother could love.&qu... (more)

A pair of executive MACs, BNSF 9668 & 9802, lead westbound empties headed back to the Powder River Basin.

A classic pair of BN Geeps lead the Argonne Local through Burr Ridge.

Trespassers in a pristine wilderness. Plowing snow that's just a foot or two deep, the White Pass Rotary Fleet is making good progress through Meadows, en route to a water and lunch stop ju... (more)

It's a good day for plowin', eh?. Looking a bit like a giant whale surfacing, the White Pass Rotary Fleet climbs out of a deep cut, about 3 miles north of the US/Canada Border, en route to ... (more)

News of the 1996 merger hasn't quite met the remote town of Klamath Falls, OR yet.

One with nature. Blending rather nicely with her desert surroundings, Nevada Northern's Steptoe Flyer passenger train makes an afternoon run down the Adverse Branch toward Ely, bringing 1st... (more)

Southern Railway SD40 #3170 rests outside the NS paint shop at sunset in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Within a few hours, it will be cranked up and running, being prepared for revenue service after ha... (more)

Don Helper waits to back the 40 through Ely Yard

After a rebuild at Norfolk Southern's Juniata Shop in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and restoration into its original Southern Railway paint scheme at the Chattanooga locomotive shop, Southern SD40 #3170... (more)

BNSF 1444 (SD60M) is on point for a freight coming out of the Denver Yard.