“Force Majeure” ~ Hartline, Washington: before breakfast-o’clock in the midst of temperatures tumbling into inhumane depths; when one can scarcely feel his digits ditch lights reach into the... (more)

This morning, an astonishing large group of photographers and videographers from over the world watched the shift change "ceremony" at the Dongbolizhan station.

Inside the boiler of a 2-8-2 JS steamlocomotive, with tubes removed. View from the smokebox to the firebox. The boiler is stabeld outside the Dongbolizhan workshop.

“Kootenai Zag-Zig” ~ Yup. I do manage to get out in “ideal” weather conditions from time-to-time as on this splendid May day this year. Looking north, I’m poised on a 400-foot east bank ... (more)

The H BELKCK holds main 1 while a Westbound grain train climbs its way up out of town, beginning its journey across the Panhandle Sub on a cold and clear Saturday morning.

Autoracks on the Indiana & Ohio Railway pound across the diamond with CSX as they leave CSX's Queensgate Yard.

Sunrise at 09.17 AM behind JS 8190 at Dongbolizhan station.

The CSX Dash 9 class leader locomotive leads CSX manifest freight Q697 as it passes under the NS bridge and enters Queensgate Yard with the Cincinnati skyline as a backdrop.

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Cold and snow in Rhodope narrow gauge railway

Shooting from a crumbling pedestrian walkway, we see an Arcelor Mittal SW1200 pull a cut of coil cars from the plant in East Chicago.

Locomotives:
MTSX 8 SW1200

The least photographed of the 2 sole remaining C30-7's in Alliance, Nebraska manages to capture the morning sun on a cool September Morning. The rumor is these 2 units will be scrapped on site wi... (more)

Mystery Woman on the Q train.

No 1000 was built by American Car & Foundry, 1935.

An Ever-Changing Scene--As the Sun Sets

The Juniata Locomotive Shop is a never-ending source of interest. On each visit, the details are always a little different. Different locomot... (more)

Kanawha River Railroad train KN-37 rolls across Sweeneyburg Trestle near Beckley on the former Virginian Princeton-Deepwater line with an ex-EJ&E SD38-2 and two FRA track geometry cars, DOTX 218 a... (more)