Diamonds are a girl's best friend. When it was built, Mills Tower guarded the crossing of the Rock Island and the Illinois Central. Long since closed, the tower now stands watch as the Unio... (more)

The shell of a soon-to-be-rebuilt NS road slug, RP-E4C 736, sits outside the Juniata Shops. Behind the slug is GP38-2 5064, a high hood unit built for the Southern in August 1973. At the rear is N... (more)

Pere Marquette 1225 is posed for photographers in Cadillac after pulling an excursion up from Owosso.

Which one doesn't belong? Just blocks from downtown Millville and surrounded by residences, Winchester & Western GP9 811 and a John Deere tractor meet on Mulberry Street. St. Paul's Luthera... (more)

Besides the photo stop at the High Bridge, the only other runby performed on the northbound Cass to Elkins trip was held at this bridge over the Shavers Fork near Milepost 77, about five miles sou... (more)

As this year's Lackawanna Railfest festivities wound down, the Amtrak display train was backed off of the display track alongside the entrance driveway to be staged for departure the next morning.... (more)

My HO scale model of Reading & Northern 425 arrives at Jim Thorpe on this highly detailed section of my friend's layout. Actually, this is 12 inch to the foot railroading, as the blue Pacific pull... (more)

The conductor lets a couple of women know how long until the train leaves while 1223's fireman enjoys his last few moments of peace before getting back to work as the 4-4-0 races through the night... (more)

Northern at speed. A few miles of parallel highway gave photo charter participants a chance to get pace shots as Milwaukee Road 261 headed west to the next photo location.

Ready for launch. After being on display all weekend for North Platte's Railfest, Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 3985 simmers away the night before she left for a tour of the Midwest.

Pocket streamliner. PRR 5711 and 5809 lead three cars through the PRR position light signals at MP 273, just north of Dalmatia on the former Buffalo-Harrisburg line.

With the rain coming down, EBT 2-8-2s 15 and 14 work up McMullen's Summit on the return trip to Orbisonia during the 2005 Fall Spectacular.

Top Ten of 2017. With 2017 in the books, here's a look back at my Top 10 favorite shots from the past year.
8. The announcement late in 2016 that Southern Pacific 4-8-4 444... (more)

Happy Inde-pan-dence Day. With American flags flying, the only active Decapod in the United States accelerates out of Cherry Hill in this panned view on July 4. Note the fireman in the do... (more)

Modern power meets elegant varnish... During Grand Central Terminal's Parade of Trains anniversary celebration, Metro-North P32AC-DM 202 (built in 1995) found itself next to former New York... (more)