Consisting of caboose-C415-C415-caboose, a Rock Island cab hop heads past the Blue Island passenger depot into Burr Oak Yard. Tom Golden photo.

CSX Q62004 heads south.

No coal in your stocking this year. The 2018 Capital Region Toys for Tots train was lead by Norfolk Southern Corp SD60Es 7030 and 7014, seen here in Cobleskill, New York on December 1, 2018. The b... (more)

Nearly Home over the Rio Chama

Rotary OY and team spent the day fighting snow on the mountain and returning home over the bridge at Dolce, NM. The warm light of this sunset hid... (more)

A pair of Union Pacific EMD SD50s power a southbound taconite ore train over the Escanaba River Bridge at North Escanaba, Michigan, on January 18, 1997. This Pratt through truss bridge was built i... (more)

A westbound Soo Line freight charges through Duplainville, Wisconsin, during a winter snowstorm on February 23, 1994. The interlocking plant at Duplainville is also lined up for an eastbound train... (more)

Snow Locked Flatirons

Westbound, high out on the Flatirons above the Great Plains in full snow flock the Provo manifest swoops in and out of tunnel 2, 3, and onward to the Gr... (more)

Laying over in the Conrail Yard in Hammonton with a nice coat of snow from a recent storm.

During a heavy snowfall the Big Boy is slowly walked through the switches at the end of the ex-DRGW North Yard. In a few hours the engine and crew will be back home in Cheyenne after a very busy y... (more)

Kyle Railroad plow No. MWK 06 slices through deep snow west of Edson, Kansas, on January 2, 2007. Needless to say, visibility for the crew in the pushing locomotives is non existent when plowing t... (more)

After a long life on the rails, waiting to go to the srcapper's.

Time is almost up for these nearly century-old US&S TR-2's. While there will still be lots of charm in the form of other signals and plentiful telegraph line, LSRC loses another piece of history a... (more)

The Battle for the Pass has Begun.

Through 4-5’ of deep snow Denver & Rio Grande Western OY rotary steam powered snow plow is in full battle for the pass. Gently falling lar... (more)

Snow Fighting to Colorado

Near the Colorado state line the Rotary OY is in full battle with snow with 2-8-2 #487 and #484 pushing.

Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 and a period freight train pass the still, icy water of Jake’s Pond near Charleston, Utah, on a winter photo freight operated by Heber Valley Railroad on February 7, ... (more)