An Amtrak conductor happily looks ahead towards the front of his train as it departs the Amsterdam Amtrak Station on its way east on a beautiful early spring morning.

Removing the prime mover. CN 7208 was involved in a sideswipe with CN 121, causing it to derail very early on February 23rd, 2014 in the St-Henri neighbourhood of Montreal. Its frame... (more)

Railroad officials and First Responders work the derailment scene.

On April 4, WSOR's Horicon-Janesville-Chicago train derailed in Janesville as it was entering the yard to head south for Chicago. It put a loaded SOU sand hopper on its side. These are the clean u... (more)

On April 4, WSOR's Horicon-Janesville-Chicago train derailed in Janesville as it was entering the yard to head south for Chicago. It put a loaded SOU sand hopper on its side. These are the clean u... (more)

Rio Grande's Roper and Helper derricks were called to clean up a 13 car derailment at Gilluly on March 28, 1976. DRGW GP9s 5932 and 5922 assist derrick 027 at the west end of the derailment.

Rio Grande's Roper and Helper derricks were called to clean up a 13 car derailment at Gilluly on March 28, 1976. DRGW 027, a 150-ton steam derrick built by Bucyrus in 1923, works the west end of t... (more)

The crew works late into the night to clear a derailment in the WSOR yard in Janesville out front of the roundhouse. The covered hopper is SOU 92397 and was loaded with sand.

One of the two Electro-Motive Division RS1325’s ever produced lies derailed in Pekin, Illinois on Friday, March 28, 2014. Illinois & Midland Railroad # 30, built in the fall of 1960 for Chicag... (more)

Winter woes. Steam is used to thaw frozen equipment in CUS before heading back out on the road.

Montana Rail Link's Logan Local pauses in Sappington, Montana, at the beginning of the branch to Harrison so the Engineer can sign the Block Register. MRL's Harrison Branch (6th Subdivision) is Bl... (more)

The day job at Waterloo begins to switch out the traffic that came in overnight. Today's conductor is working his last day in a 40 year career. The day began with lots of good old stories before h... (more)

The engineer of the 1950 EMD guides the one car museum train with ease back from the shop on a bright Saturday afternoon at Georgia's official transportation museum.

This crew worked most of the morning to re-rail two hoppers that jumped the track at the wye on the east side of Johnstown. The cars were moving slowly so no damage, although that lean was enough... (more)

The Big Boy finally exits the fairgrounds and heads onto mainline track just before 3am.