Taking cover. The Pikes Peak Cog Railway is in hibernation on Monday, August 31, 2020. As of February 2019, service on the railroad was temporarily suspended while a major rebuild is commenced. It... (more)

In what looks like a scene out of a post-apocalypse movie, the remains of the Boston & Maine engine repair facility at Iron Horse Park in North Billerica stand battered and weather-beaten after ye... (more)

Pan Am Railways East Deerfield Yard from an aerial view.

Strong thunderstorms rolled through Duluth and in the process knocked over a few double stack cars at the port terminal.

The conductor on Kopper Glo mine run 787 steps off the train before a cut of empties is shoved through the loadout before being filled with black diamonds.

All was quiet, but not for long. A tour of the shop facilities of the East Broad Top Railroad on November 3, 2019 shows an exceptionally well preserved workshop, but that's not what workshops were... (more)

Random centercab at Andersons Plant Nutrient along the US Rail mainline near Walton.

I liked the symmetry of track panels stacked at BNSF's yard in Duluth.

Storage cars rot away at the inactive Bates Branch loadout deep in the C&O coalfields.

Built by the mighty PRR in the 1950s, the former Sam Rea Car Shop still stands as a mix-use industrial park. Curry Supply Holdings leases about 1/3 of the building for two of their divisions, Curr... (more)

Carnage!! The slow painful death of this old Canada Starch tank car being ripped apart like a T-Rex ripping apart it's prey.

With both BNSF-served taconite iron ore mines closed due to soft demand for steel, most of the railroad's fleet of ore cars is currently stored with the exception of a few sets running to U.S. Ste... (more)

Like stars dot the sky, interlocking towers (or cabins as the C&O often called them) used to dot the railroad landscape. However, technology rapidly eliminated their need. NJ Cabin stands tall on ... (more)

A BNSF coal train out of Murray yard passes the still standing searchlight signals at Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City, Missouri.

In the early hours of the morning on August 22, 2018, Hulcher and BNSF crews work hard to clean up a massive derailment at Devore, California. All 3 BNSF main tracks were damaged by this derailmen... (more)