Japanese love to shoot some photos on their excursions, where the date is recorded on the picture. Here a mother takes a photo from her family in front of the icon of Japanese high-speed rail, a S... (more)

A grain truck at Gothenburg, Nebraska, waits for an eastbound Union Pacific train to clear on July 3, 1986. Class CA-13 caboose No. 24516, a bay window car acquired from the Rock Island, trails th... (more)

The MTA summer trackwork season is in full swing on the 7 Line. Flushing-bound trains must use the center track on weekends between 33rd and 111th Streets and are unable to make local stops. Her... (more)

Amtrak's King Tut locomotive pulls the Cascades over the Fraser River Bridge, and SRY's Fraser Surrey Lead, with the Shops crew pushing out caboose first underneath the Cascades (which is the BNSF... (more)

Blame the broom operator! Blame Me! I must admit with little shame I am behind dirtying up the locomotives! CN 8959, CN 2108, GTW 5945 get a little dirtier after kicking up dust from fresh ballast... (more)

At west end of Horto Florestal Yard a helper set of Dash 9's from VLI push away your train while another grain train waits for the green signal to proceed. Notice the commuter train behind the gra... (more)

NS train number M87 glides across the former Central of Georgia overpass in downtown Childersburg, Alabama, while loaded coal train Q4K passes underneath headed for the power plant at Wilsonville.... (more)

18-124 with a short mixed load bound for Durban is seen crossing 18-614 with a load of empty CAR Wagons just outside Chieveley Station in Northern KwaZulu Natal.

Q102's tailend remote springs to life, as the headend, 12,500 feet ahead has just received the signal to depart Henry House after meeting train Q111.

A Utah Railway IPP coal empty roars east past a Loram L-Series Specialty Rail Grinder on the house track at Narrows in Spanish Fork Canyon. The L-Series model is gauge convertible and is designed ... (more)

With mainline dispatching woes hindering the flow of traffic on the Orin Sub, I found South Black Thunder Mine plugged with one load parked at MP 49.5 (the mainline junction), a pair of smoky SD70... (more)

This North Western train was told by the dispatcher to "hold for seven" at Shawnee Junction - a busy place.

Traffic jam on Logan Hill: A gloomy winter sunrise finds the three tracks at the summit of Logan Hill jammed with coal trains, while a BNSF load in the distance drops down towards Bill. Th... (more)

Modern power meets elegant varnish... During Grand Central Terminal's Parade of Trains anniversary celebration, Metro-North P32AC-DM 202 (built in 1995) found itself next to former New York... (more)