An intermodal train races into the night down the Lurgan Branch seen only with the light of automobile headlights.

After track upgrades on the Lurgan Branch, NS has been running trains at higher speed such as this train that is streaking over the Yellow Breeches creek.

The commemorative Pier 6 Hopper is in the consist of the U05, headed East into the yard at Williamson.

Once a grand facility to service the finest Southern Railway locomotives, this roundhouse today has been modified to be a warehouse and now sits forlorn and abandoned. The history is there, you j... (more)

Small roll car for half automatic greasing of the rack rail, which was later coupled with diesel locomotive HGm # 51 and pushed up the line towards Gletsch and the Furka tunnel.

UFOs on the rail! Empty nuclear rod cars enter Enola yard off the Pittsburgh line

Using a pry bar, sledgehammer, and alot of muscle, the loadout crew closes a few open discharge doors before coal can be loaded.

Exhaust mixes with fog coming off the snow, as pushers on the rear of a heavy coal drag near the top of Elkhorn Grade. The pushers have been on the rear since Farm in the long grueling climb to th... (more)

The Southern Railway-era signal bridge at Ayersville sits under a bright, crisp night sky during what will be the last summer for this and many other similar structures alongside the Piedmont Divi... (more)

Interesting trackwork in Chur direction Felsberg. Photo taken from the front window of the last car B 2304 of train RE 1121. Turnout for 1 meter gauge (RhB) and for standard gauge (SBB). The stand... (more)

The last section of the longest railway bridge in Switzerland was recently concreted, the big yellow falsework will now be dismantled. Over the Letzigraben bridge, which has a 4.0 % down gradient ... (more)

sun / sea / beach / train: the Adria coast

The X5 looks good with a fresh coat of paint and on home rails.

Towers to different eras
Sitting forlornly amongst the growing soybeans of a farmer’s field is a concrete coaling tower on the abandoned Chicago and North Western “Ridgerunner Lineâ... (more)