Ex-Melbourne street car 1032 departs the terminus at Meola Road. This stop serves the adjacent Western Springs Railway which has several tank steam locomotives. This heritage line opened in stag... (more)

A view from the mountain to the train station in Brig at nightfall. On the left the tracks for freight trains, behind the siding for passenger trains and the loco shed. In front 4 platforms with 7... (more)

A pair of auto racks make for interesting looky-loo sightings (and yes the photographer was also a looky-loo) as the scene of a derailment in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York attracted a great deal of... (more)

A Delaware and Hudson and a Conrail boxcar sit out in a field after being involved in a derailment. Across the Hudson River is Breakneck Mountain.

A crane builds the railroad back up after a nasty derailment wiped out a good deal of the track.

Preheating the Rail - BNSF MOW (Maintenance of Way) workers use an Oxy-Acetylene torch to preheat the ends to two adjoining sections of 136lb. rail in preparation to welding them together... (more)

Impending eastbound on a cold clear evening near Lynn, West Virginia.

Shearing the Excess - A BNSF MOW (Maintenance of Way) worker uses a hydraulic shear to remove excess iron from a molten weld produced from a Thermite reaction.

A wreck on the River Line shut the entire line down on January 27, 1979. What looks like a snow covered path in front of the auto carrier is actually the ROW. The tracks have been removed as part ... (more)

On a foggy December evening, a green light beams from the southbound Southern Railway signal at Oakwood. As seen, its replacement is already up, obstructing the view, though still allowing us to w... (more)

The coal chute at Orbisonia waits for a tender to fill.

Interior view of UN Tower, a few months before it closed. UN has since been moved and restored by the Beaver-Lawrence Railway Historical Society. Photos of the restored tower can be seen here: ... (more)

The Mighty MoPac - A relic from a by gone era still rolls along the rails on a Union Pacific Coal train headed for the Port of Los Angeles. Railroad: Missouri Pacific
Locomotive: None
Location: Cajon Pass - San Bernardino County, California, USA
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: - - - -
Photo Date: November 30, 2013

Brunswick, MD 11/30/2013 - The bitter cold of a 25 degree night has claimed the water draining from purposeful holes in the bottom of a loaded coal hopper waiting for its call to a power plant on ... (more)

Humping under a Waxing Crescent
A setting waxing crescent moon shows up in the still blue western sky as centerbeams loaded with lumber get classified on the East Hump at North Platte, ... (more)