Only the first run of the day (8:30 a.m.) up to the 6288-ft. summit of Mount Washington, N.H. is steam powered on the cog railway. All others have new state-of-art John Deere biodiesels. No. 9, ... (more)

CP Alco 4559 and its three EMD mates with a westbound unit coal train have surmounted 4640-ft. Rogers Pass inside 5-mile long Connaught Tunnel. As it begins its descent on a 2.4% grade on the old... (more)

Santa Fe Alco RSD15 604 and two RSD-4’s lead Train 31 out of La Junta (Colo.) yard en route to Albuquerque and Belen, N.M. April 23, 1967.

The FP-45 and F-45 on Santa Fe’s Trn. 17 El Capitan / Super Chief needed a little assistance from SD-39 4008 on October 1, 1970 as the train passed Maxwell, N.M.

What has to be one of the most forlorn and desolate graveyards ever — the Cementerio de Locomotaras of the Ferrocarril Nacional Empresa Bolivia RR outside of Uyuni, Bolivia, Aug. 9, 2008, more p... (more)

Right on time, Burlington Kansas City Zephyr between Chicago and Kansas City has just crossed the Mississippi River into West Quincy, Mo. The 3rd car in the train is a round end parlor dining car... (more)

The F units on Colorado & Southern’s northbound freight appear a bit battle-worn and weary as the train drops into Trinidad, Colo. for a crew change before proceeding on to Pueblo and Denver on ... (more)

With a quartet of F3's, Southern's Train 68 has crested the grade at Balsam Gap, N.C. on the Murphy Branch on its way back to Asheville. If the crew is cool, perhaps they are unaware the nose do... (more)

Clinchfield GE 3602 has southbound tonnage in tow at Pactolus, Tenn. on June 21, 1972. CRR's units were going black, the era of gray with yellow breasts had passed.

Clinchfield was 277 miles in length, and Train 94 passes M.P. 275 at the north edge of terminus Spartanburg.

With a load of pipe in its train, Santa Fe’s La Junta - Dodge City local has arrived Dodge City, Kansas behind Alco RSD-4 2141, Nov. 17, 1967.

Northbound Clinchfield Train 95 crosses Rotherwood Bridge over the north fork of Holston River west of Kingsport, Tenn. after SD-40's had shown up on the roster. Units 804-3003 and 3005

This replica of the Rocket was built in 1979, restored in 2010, and is often steamed up. Don’t worry about the engineer having to stand up — he can’t go very far with only a barrel of water... (more)

UP 807 East has ample power to climb Cajon Pass as it nears the summit on Sept. 1, 1974. Two GP-30's (one a "B" unit), a DD35A, an SD-40-2 followed by two DDA-40X's. The heavy grading and dirt ... (more)

With carloads of British Columbia’s natural resource, near South Slocan CP 8645 local is following the Kootenay River en route back to Nelson. Only one flat car has bulkheads.