Happy Halloween. Before sunrise on a cool, fall day, CN 2-6-0 911 heads eastward past a pumpkin patch in the fields of eastern Ontario.

With the Spoul State Forest dominating the backdrop, PRR E8s 5809 and 5711 slow as they split the MP 168 signals, only a couple of miles from their destination, Renovo's Flaming Foliage Festival.

Another one bites the dust... Western Maryland BL2 82 passes a former mine operation that is slowly being scrapped a few miles west of Elkins. Note the twisted conveyors on the ground at ri... (more)

(l-r) Shay 11, Heisler 6 and Shay 2 storm through the Cass yard during Sunday morning's famous three-train race. Only a few more weeks until these scenes are repeated in the hills of eastern WV.

Speeding through the West Virginia woods. Deep in the valleys of the Mountain State, a set of F7s lead a short mixed freight southward toward Romney. Thanks to the South Branch Valley Railr... (more)

Union Pacific 4-8-4 844 is greeted by this flag-waving woman and a handful of other locals as it blasts through the tiny town of Corbin, Kansas on its way to Wichita for the night.

What is with Pennsylvania and its colorful engines? First, the Reading & Northern 425 emerges in blue, and now Strasburg has painted Canadian National 0-6-0 7312 a reddish-orange color, seen here ... (more)

The casino in downtown Rock Island (one of 9 in the state) looms in the background as Iowa Interstate 2-10-2 7081 arrives back in town from Walcott, Iowa, with an excursion for Midwest flood relie... (more)

As dusk settles over the Berkshires, B&M GP40 335 and four sisters depart westward out of a snow-covered East Deerfield yard. There is plenty of power sitting on the ready track in the distance an... (more)

Plow train. Somewhere behind all that flying snow is Strasburg's Russell plow and N&W 475, clearing the line the day before the first runs of the season after a couple of storms dropped 20+... (more)

Doubleheader! American Viscose Company 0-4-0 6, visiting from nearby Dunkirk, NY, teamed up with Arcade & Attica 2-8-0 18 on a photographer's special. The special has just passed through do... (more)

Guess he doesn't like the whistle. As Pere Marquette 1225 leads a freight across snow-covered Michigan fields, a Husky shows his displeasure over the morning intruder.

While railfanning the Midwest in 1952, I got this shot of a Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 in Glencoe, Minnesota. Unfortunately, the color Ektachrome slide has faded badly in the years since, resulting in t... (more)

CP 2317 sitting in the Delaware Water Gap after its tender and 6 coaches derailed. You can see the tender leaning to the side in this picture.

Helpers NS 3346 and PRR 3341 sit at MO waiting for 18N to pass so they can follow it back down the hill to Altoona. The red dashes are the EOT on the last autorack of 18N as it heads east. Fuji Fi... (more)