A nice looking passenger car brings up the back end of Cormans Derby train after it had delivered its passengers to Churchill Downs. Here the train heads home for Lexington.

"Spans on the Van Wyck"

On the morning of April 23rd, 2023, one of the new Van Wyck Expressway ML 1/3 Rail Bridge spans slowly moves across the highway as two recently remov... (more)

Under a plethora of stars on a clear Montana night, the Northern Pacific-era cantilevered signal announces the dispatcher’s decision to route a BNSF train west on Montana Rail Link’s main line... (more)

Even though the exterior of the Metra station at Stone Avenue features elegant stone arches leading to the platform lining BNSF’s Chicago to Aurora main line, the interior is remarkably basic, w... (more)

Norfolk Southern is replacing the 132 pound welded rail on this line with larger 136 pound per yard welded rail. This is part of a multiyear project to increase capacity. Here an EB rail train i... (more)

The Shields River Valley Railway built a 22-mile line, completed in 1909, north from a connection on the Northern Pacific at Mission, Montana, to serve the agricultural communities of Grannis, Cha... (more)

Devastating flooding in Montana almost took out this bridge in June 2022. Completed in 1909, Shields River Valley Railway built this 22-mile line north from a connection on the Northern Pacific at... (more)

Wheels waiting to roll
New wheels sit in the late afternoon sun, carefully stored for future intermodal car axle replacement inside Union Pacific’s Joliet Intermodal Terminal at Jolie... (more)

The Last (Last, Last) Full Moon on The Rise (?)

In what’s sounding like a broken record, the easternmost blade on NMRX’s Railroad greets the second full moon of 2023, the ‘... (more)

Drivers view on the Jungfrau Railway, entering the Eismeer crossing station on 3158 meter a.s.l., deep inside the Eiger mountain, when coming from the Jungfraujoch, top of Europe. The gauge is 1 m... (more)

Dawn breaks over South Deshler, and the classic Color Position Light guarding it.

The Amtrak Station in Rome, NY

APRES-SKI-BAR bar car Bp # 4027 of the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn in the rear of regional train R 831 of the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn from Disentis to Andermatt, near the Oberalppass. The car had be... (more)

Winter in Montana can be brutal, and during one of these bitter cold days, a Montana Rail Link section crew digs out a switch serving Thompson River Lumber before MRL’s Paradise local arrives to... (more)

The two new automatic gauge change facilities in Zweisimmen on tracks 6 and 7 in the home position (not active), in operation since the timetable change on December 11, 2022. In the background, th... (more)