Three tracks nearly full of stored NS GE power paint await future work and/or repair at Roanoke alongside a string of freshly rebuilt coal hoppers in this July 2013 image. As of late April 2014, t... (more)

An arsonist is suspected of setting the timber-lined Douglas Tunnel ablaze in the early morning hours of Sunday April 27th. Douglas is on the busy former C&O (ex B&O) Sandy Valley & Elkhorn Subdi... (more)

Heritage in it's simplest form.

SC 1102 has the lead crossing the Pajaro River Bridge on the way to customers in Watsonville. A father and his three young sons joined me to watch the train go by on this beautiful evening.

Soo Line 700 crosses the Sucker River before it empties into Lake Superior between Duluth and Two Harbors. This ex-Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway bridge was also in the 1994 movie Iron Wil... (more)

SD70ACe UP 8430 sits outside the North Little Rock Jenks Shops, waiting to be taken back into the shops for more engine work.

CN uses a number of large vacuum trucks to suck spilled taconite pellets from between the rails on its former DM&IR ore lines in Minnesota. Here one of the trucks cleans the mainline through Proct... (more)

The Baiha Honda Key bridge was constructed by the Florida East Coast Railroad as part of the construction of the Overseas Railroad, linking Miami with Key West. The long truss bridge linked Baiha ... (more)

An interesting BNSF switch job pauses by the yard office as freezing rain falls. It was likely headed to the car shop area, the normal summer home for the snow dozer.

What a great, interesting place Harpers Ferry is. Seems like no matter what you're intrested in, there is something for you in this extreme eastern corner of the WV.

What better way to travel on the tracks of 'The Estate' than in a 1913 BSA-bodied inspection trolley?

The young conductor on Ontario Northland GMD GP9 No. 1603 with a departing westbound freight decides to douce with water the conductor his senior of ONR GMD GP38-2 No. 1806 walking up to the switc... (more)

In preparation for the upcoming movement of Union Pacific Big Boy steam locomotive 4014 from California for restoration in Cheyenne, SD70M's 4014 and 4884 along with a short train of support cars ... (more)

Where do you find parts for a 100 year-old steam engine? The answer is....you usually don't FIND them, more often then not, you have to MAKE them. At the Nevada Northern Railway Museum, th... (more)

Few minutes after the sun go down, the night shift crew are busy working in the shop. Inside the service center are CSXT ES40DC 5295, and CSXT SD40-3 4037 get serviced after finishing up their dut... (more)