Final Curtain

After 143 years of near continuous use of coal-burning power on the Silverton Branch of the Denver and Rio Grande Western, on the 23rd of March 2024. The final r... (more)

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These two ALCOs have been returned from the East Stroudsburg area. Spending the past year (?) marooned due to a massive washout of the main. Repairs completed and RS-32 and RS-11 came up on yester... (more)

Union Pacific F3A 1445 and mates lead a westbound freight near Dale Wyoming in 1954. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Loaded coal train NS 798 winds along the French Broad River just East of Del Rio as the morning fog begins to burn off.

When I was ten, in the "Roanoke Times" newspaper, I saw a shot of N&W steamers lined up in rows with sparks of acetylene cutters coming up somewhere. Here, in a contaminated field by a ... (more)

Westbound exiting Crozier Canyon. Trailing units are Dash 8-40BW 509 and SF30C 9550.

Yadkin Valley YV1 passing through Rockford

CPKC train 118 holds the siding for a meet with CP train 421 at Selim on the CPKC Nipigon Subdivision.

Steam locomotive Uve N°2 is running a short sugar cane train near the Ncalu station on the Patons Country Railway.

The Levack Job heads to the shop tracks to tie up for the night. Meanwhile over at Diesel Electric Service its a hub of activity with a Herzog MPM, VIA Rail's Budd Car (3), and G&W power for Huron... (more)

The 315 "yellowbonnet" was one of the 74 passenger F-units which had been leased to Amtrak for its trains operating on the Santa Fe. When the lease terminated, the units were converted... (more)

After have work performed on it a Danville, DMIR 405 awaits lifting by CN at CSX’s main yard in Buffalo NY.

Amtrak's Winter Park Express Ski Train runs through four feet of snow at Crescent Colorado as it heads up the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

Four feet of snow has fallen at Crescent, Colorado as a pair of Norfolk Southern ponies shove a loaded oil can train towards Denver on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.