On the ninth day of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation rail blockade in Ontario - a day after CN announced it would "shut down its Eastern Canada network" - a handful of trains took the scenic route ov... (more)

On a snowy morning, Y HOD303 arrives at GM Yard with a trio of BN's.

CVR 4053 backs past the Dodge City, Kansas Depot doubling over the last portion of it's massive train. Cimarron Valley Railroad operates a former Santa Fe secondary that originates large amounts ... (more)

Hooping it up! Crews would order meals at The IL-MO Beanery in Scott City and pick them up on the fly: one for the locomotive crew, one for the caboose.

Bound for Boardman, Oregon, a BNSF coal train crosses Union Pacific’s impressive bridge over the Snake River at Joso, Washington, on September 21, 2015. These trains use UP’s Ayer Subdivision (the... (more)

Where the North Atacama Desert gives way to the Andes foothils, a sunrise starts lighting a train that started its journey at the Toquepala mine at night. The train will reach its destination, the... (more)

Pan Am detour train 16R-19 is using the Vermont Rail System detour route on February 19, as MEC B40-8s 5946, 5936, 5930, and 5976 lead VTR 310 and 71 cars over the GMRC Bellows Falls Subdivision. ... (more)

As detour trains for Pan Am Southern settle in on the Vermont Rail System, a daylight morning PAS 11R detour, East Deerfield, MA to Binghamton, NY, departs Rutland after the locomotives swapped en... (more)

As the early morning sun rises, several long lines of empty hoppers and stored locomotives sit in the West Yard at Roanoke. Another view of this scene showing only the locomotives can be viewed... (more)

A Terex dump truck gets waved in front of Conrail local BA-3 as its cars of loaded scrap metal from Sims Metal Management get inspected by its conductor. An employee from the metal company stood i... (more)

In Potrerillos, near Diego de Almagro town in northern Chile, the sun has been hidden between the hills of the Andes mountain, the night will begin soon and trains of FERRONOR railway continue wor... (more)

As if the Pan Am Railways detours on Vermont Rail System were not historic enough, Pan Am assembled a 5-unit motive power set for detour train 11R-15, that consisted of all company painted B40-8s ... (more)

Passenger train in tests, crosses tunnel 12 of subdivision 19 Concepción - Arauco line, bordering the Pacific Ocean with destination Horcones in southern Arauco city.

Skid marks on the street often tell a story, but I think rarely quite as dramatically as they do here at the grade crossing where a former Union Pacific SD60, now owned by CEMEX and used on their ... (more)

After dumping its 3 loaded cars of rock, this unique operation reverses down the 2-mile-long line towards the main quarry.