Two minutes after the run above the tunnel #9 the locs are running below the carriages of the own train out of the tunnel toward Bakersfield (Photo taken with permission). On photo #815977 you see... (more)

Fall Foliage Beware!!!!! The remaining colorful leaves on the trackside trees are about to get a test of strength as they are about to be blasted by the exhaust of former Reading T-1 #2102 as i... (more)

The signal behind tunnel #9 shows red, because the train on the Loop runs in two minutes through the tunnel toward Bakersfield (Photo taken with permission). On photo #816050 the locs leave the tu... (more)

The locomotives are running above the carriages of their own train (Photo taken with permission).

A year after the fire in Lytton, understandably everyone is a little on edge with the dozens of fires in the Cascades mountains on both sides of the border. Canadian National has a fire train know... (more)

Re 420 # 109 (Re 4/4 II # 11109) of the SBB in the Swiss Express paint scheme (the only operational left), rented to the Chemins de Fer du Jura/Jura Railways (CJ) for about 2 weeks, is entering St... (more)

“Cat Ears, Revisited”
Destined for Shaw Mines, PA, coal empties on No. 1 Main exit the 1592-foot Graham Tunnel (in Allegany County, MD) and immediately cross Kessler Bridge into Morg... (more)

The creaking of rails and the resounding rumble of GE motors echo through Natural Tunnel as CSX trackage rights coal load C090 snakes its way through. They're are framed as they exit the south por... (more)

"Flirt" RABe 523 # 002 of the SBB is running the S 3 service 17330 from Olten via Liestal-Basel-Laufen-Delémont to Porrentruy, leaving St-Ursanne and entering the Chateau tunnel. This w... (more)

It's been a nice trip over to East Chattanooga yard for today's local and now we head back to Grand Junction. On our way, we make a second trip through the Missionary Ridge Tunnel. The engineer c... (more)

Tight Squeeze. Originally built as Milwaukee Road 109 in 1950 this loco now wears C&O paint and squeezes through this S shaped tunnel. With only inches on each side to spare as it gingerly roll... (more)

The Amtrak heritage engine 160 (known as the Pepsi Can paint scheme) exits Tunnel 1 at Plainview, Colorado as it leads the California Zephyr 6 train towards Denver.

On the sunny morning of September 27, 2015, a westbound Canadian Pacific potash train passes through the Skoonka Tunnels west of Spences Bridge, British Columbia. The unit train of Canpotex cars i... (more)

Coal loads exit the twin tunnels at Thistle, catching the soft glow at dusk along the realigned right-of-way, rebuilt after a massive landslide blocked the canyon and wiped out the original D&RGW ... (more)

“Cat Ears”
A massive westbound hopper train, in 5+3+0 configuration, exits the 993-foot Carothers Tunnel on the famed Magnolia Cutoff, which was opened for business by the B&O in 191... (more)