All in a Day’s Work

The Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern serves a small explosives manufacturing plant at Mount Carmel Junction, Pennsylvania. Since there is no runaround track ... (more)

This is another of those shots I'd always wanted and just got luck this day and stumbled upon it. It seems a bit like honorary street running and just had an incongruous charm about it.

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While pulling out of the Smart Paper mill on a wet winter day, we connected at the crossing with the blue car shown here. A slow speed impact, but not a good feeling. Driver wasn't injured, but I'... (more)

LaGrange, Kentucky is a small town that any railfan can enjoy. Between the street running, shops, and dining in town, it has the perfect setup. While I was eating an early dinner, I heard the fami... (more)

Train Truck Standoff

M&E 19 is street running down Monroe street on the Dundee spur on its way to the Dundee yard to pick up EL U34CH 3372, however it appears that a tractor... (more)

Amtrak's midday southbound Talgo passes the world's largest egg.

Here's one of the oddest units you'll ever see - a TP70. Built in December of 2015, FDWX 0002 was built on the frame of an HTC truck donated from SD40-2 PSWX (ex-CP) No. 785. Powered by a CAT 9.3 ... (more)

”There’s Something You Don’t See Every Day, Chauncey.” “What’s That, Edgar?”

Saturday, April 15, 2017, was a bad day on the San Diego Subdivision. About halfway betwe... (more)

In the spirit of the circus train movement, the conductor of the Southbound light power is dressed as a clown. This light power movement provided a rare opportunity to photograph PAR 2 leading.

Rusting in Place

A JS locomotive illuminates an otherwise pitch black scene as it departs the open pit at Sandaoling with another load of coal destined for the washery. Xinjiang Province, China.

This train was kidnapped! Really, with onboard staff and all of your passengers! A really strange story ... that ended sadly, as the picture shows us.

How do you manage to turn a locomotive with 20,32 meter (66,6 feet) axle base including tender, on a turntable with 20 meter (65,6 feet) diameter only? Yes, you remove the tender first and then tu... (more)

Ya Can't Fix Stupid! One of the hazards of street running is coming across people who aren't all that bright and can't seem to see there's a train within feet of their vehicles. Such was the case ... (more)

They were basically an Aircraft Tug/Pusher adapted for railcars. A Roger Puta Photograph