A track maintenance vehicle runs past the Amtrak Winter Park Express Ski Train as it works on cleaning switches from the deep snow.

40 years ago today. A class 119 DMU has disgraced itself by derailing on trap points from the bay platform at the London end of Redhill station.

Susie-Q departs the city of Syracuse high above the streets on the ex-Lackawanna in the rain.

Old defunct TVRM locomotives in the bone yard.

Recently, the Grenada Railway got SD70MAC units delivered for service up to CN Harrison Yard and back. This train was crossing Star Landing Rd. having already been to CN to pick up the cut of car... (more)

The 7 Tilden pulls east into Eagle Mills with steaming loads. The LS&I is one of the last places in the US to have running C30-7's.

The Christmas Cardinal pulls into Thurmond, WV on a sunny morning.

CNW 5504 goes it alone as it brings an empty potash train under the West Shore Drive bridge just west of North Lake, WI in February of 1994. It was unusual (at least in my experience) to see a sin... (more)

A Christmas Heritage on I020

Union Pacific 2-10-2 5529 is seen at Victorville California in 1933. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

The New Look Of Amtrak. While the first Siemens ALC-42 locomotives were delivered in Phase VII paint in 2022, it was not until 2024 that this paint scheme made its way to other parts of the... (more)

Yarding At Sunset. On Saturday, January 11, 2025, New Jersey Transit's Conrail Heritage Unit, GP40PH-2B NJTR 4208 (ex-CR 3191, née-Penn Central 3191, EMD, GP40, 10/1968) led Train 2117 on... (more)

The diesel locomotive DL-535E 103 has left Silverton with its train DSNG 462 and is on its way to Durango. The diesel locomotive DL-535E 103, built in 1969 at the Montreal Locomotive Works for the... (more)

Just south of Toledo, OH is a busy CSX/NS diamond and a popular railfan location. How many times have you been there and never knew there was a duck pond(literally) right next door? A CSX autorac... (more)