Fire and Brimstone... heating the rails with a copious amount of coal and diesel fuel. With sledge hammer in hand, the hot rail is slowly knocked into place on a curved stretch crossing Straight C... (more)

"RAILS ON FIRE"
Literally...A Loram rail grinder works on the Norfolk Southern Lurgan Branch. The "grinding" removes blemishes on the surface and prolongs the life ... (more)

Heber Creeper crew members (left to right) George Connell, Engineer, Eric Dowty, Conductor and Mike Bigler, Fireman pose for the camera at Heber City yard on Aug. 27, 1989. Southern Pacific 2-6-0 ... (more)

Thermit welding is not something you see very often and certainly not in the tight confines of the New York City Subway. This process is used to weld two pieces of very hard metal such as steel ra... (more)

Photographer- Unknown- from my personal collection. 35mm Kodachrome original slide. Frank Collins, with his trademark cigarette, turns on the air operated bell on N&W 'J' Class 611 as she prepa... (more)

A machinist at Florida East Coast’s Bowden Yard at Jacksonville, Florida, inspects new FEC General Electric ES44C4 No. 818 on January 11, 2015. All 24 of FEC’s new GE ES44C4 locomotives are pa... (more)

If you squint really, really hard, and use a lot of imagination, you might think a jolly visitor from the North Pole is running Union Pacific No. 6013. In reality, he is one of the hard-working ra... (more)

Gary Nelson, a conductor aboard 261's train, is a veteran Great Northern conductor who also served on Burlington Northern and BNSF.

"Gentlemen, we're in for a long night."

Railroads are all about paperwork. The Naugatuck Railroad's Northern Lights Limited hasn't even left the yard lead on its deadhead move to Thomaston Station, and the conductor is already filling o... (more)

A rare daylight meet happens at the north end of White Cloud as the Bald Eagle job holds the main waiting for the Turn to clear as the engineer's exchange paperwork.

SP&S Locomotive 621, rebuilt in Portland roundhouse from SP&S Locomotive 107. The original locomotive was built in August 1910 (Class D-1 4-6-0). Locomotive re-entered service on December 22, 19... (more)

Seen from the cab of Monticello Railway Museum's Canadian National MLW FPA4, NS Illinois Division Santa Train waits as passengers deboard after the first run Sunday. Framed in the window, a CSXT ... (more)

The Operator at Miller Tower gives the "highball" to a passing eastbounder.

Metro North GCT MofE crew prepares the Holiday Train for departure to the New Haven Line from Track 27 in Grand Central Terminal. Metro North's Holiday Train runs for two weeks of December of ever... (more)