Railroads employed "date nails" to mark the last time ties were replaced. I have only come across these relics on what is now the CN Iron Range Sub and in Two Harbors outside the museum. The most... (more)

SWPC SD60 #416 leaves the Bell Mountain Quarry with another train of clinker for the cement plant in Victorville. The Southwestern Portland Cement Railroad has been in operation for nearly a centu... (more)

Montreal Maine & Atlantic #2 works upgrade on the Moosehead Subdivision near the Quebec/Maine border on a cold January morning.

Utah Railway's RUT311 local drags 25 tank cars from Holly Refining through Salt Lake City, bound for Midvale Yard. Lurking beneath an interesting adaptation of Kansas City Southern and Utah Railwa... (more)

In Eritrea, a few Russian Ural 375-D trucks that have been built in the Soviet Union in the 60’s and 70’s have been converted to run on rail wheels. They have been used in the Eritrean railway... (more)

Service on NJ Transit's Raritan Valley Line is very typically handled by NJT's fleet of unique Alstom PL42AC locomotives. Therefore I am always happy to see anything other than a PL42AC ha... (more)

CN 4017 and an FPA4 lead an eastbound VIA train across the Grand River at Paris. The 4017 was one of two GP40s in passenger service - the other being 4016, neither of which were conveyed to VIA. ... (more)

Rare movement south of North Vernon to store cars passes the historic setting of Vernon, Indiana.

The Corridor Clipper is an Amfleet I modified by Amtrak into a Track Geometry Car that includes a pantograph on its roof.

New England Central's southbound road freight train #324 is seen kicking up newly falling snow as it rolls through the quaint New England railroad town of Randolph, Vermont. The NECR 324 is led by... (more)

G525-A78-X39 make an unusual sight at V/Line's Southern Cross Station with a diverted 9306 freight from Tocumwal. The diversion was due to track occupations around the Tottenham/Sunshine area prev... (more)

GMTX 9041 started life as EMDX 3, an SD60 demonstrator. In the early '90s the unit was equipped with EMD's new HTCR radial trucks for testing purposes, and it remains the only SD60 to ever ride on... (more)

The VIP special from Norfolk, VA arrives in DC the day after the inaugural run of this new service. On the rear is the Amtrak Beech Grove with a Christmas Wreath drumhead, NS full dome and CSX Gr... (more)

The gentle curvature of a #15 turnout demonstrates how auto rack trains can enter into the lead tracks of the Kia assembly plant which at this time are void of any trains due to the annual Christm... (more)