The May 17, 1980 Southern Steam Special ran from Birmingham to Chattanooga, a distance of approximately 145 miles each way. Texas & Pacific Class I-1a 2-10-4 610 was the power for the trip. T&P 61... (more)

Here is a 'behind the scenes' look at the night shoot at NCTM...

The thing I remember most about the EMD SD45 is the sound. The 20 cylinder power plant produced loads of bass. I recall as a young kid, the sound 'rumbled in my tummy.' Even before you could see o... (more)

Following my previous post showing a railway shunting horse beside a main line train here is another at Grantham having, appropriately, just shunted a horse box. He does not look too happy! Photo ... (more)

Pretty Basic Stuff--Forward or backwards, fast or slow. Beep beep, ding ding.

Tooele Valley Railway's Warner Turn rolls west down Vine Street at the Main Street crossing in downtown Tooele, Utah. Check out all of the GM products pictured including a Chevy Malibu, a Chevy Ch... (more)

As a MOW worker carefully watches the troublesome switches at MG, 6313 gives a braking hand to 12G as a heavy westbound stack train heads up the mountain, all before sunrise.

Camaros and Firebirds galore from General Motors Detroit Assembly Plants roll east. This was during the second recession that I can remember. Thanks to Batman for offering corrections to this inf... (more)

On my 21st birthday I decided to risk it all (LOL) and take the horrible, absolutely disgusting and roughest road ever into Canyon Diablo. Okay, enough with the sarcasm, it wasn't as bad as I've h... (more)

RF&P had a small derailment in the yard at Fredericksburg, VA during the early morning hours of March 6, 1978 when Train No. 105 was making a set off. By daylight a wreck train had arrived from R... (more)

The Date: 1965 and the Conductor helps a lady board Southern Train #14 to Asheville at Barber Junction while her 'finace' waits to board with their baggage in hand. A Special thanks to C... (more)

On my first trip to the USA I packed an awful lot into 2 weeks. I drove Route 66 from Chicago to Williams in Arizona via Memphis where I rode the Grand Canyon railroad. whereas that trip was spect... (more)

It is 1940 and war has been raging for a year in Europe as the family's new 1940 Chevrolet waits for a Soo train to clear the crossing. Actually this is history recreated in 2010 with a Historic ... (more)

Shatner on the Shore Line. Much of the filming for the 1979 ABC-TV movie 'Disaster on the Coastliner', set in California, actually took place in Southeastern Connecticut. Here, a disgruntled eng... (more)