Running 13 hours late and pulled by a pair of BNSF diesels (7368 and 5454), Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, takes Track 3 - the original mainline, and at 3% also the slightly... (more)
Amtrak long-distance trains have become hard-luck stories of late. The westbound Southwest Chief was late again, having lost one P42DC in Kansas City MO on July 11, 2019. The train's powe... (more)
DRGW 3116 with the westbound Ski Train at Rock, CO, on Mar 11, 1978.
One of the two ES44C4 locomotives assigned to the BNSF Railway's 2017 California Division Christmas Train is number 6586 (on the other end of the train is 6616). The train is seen in San Bernardi... (more)
The BNSF Railway 2017 California Division Christmas Train rounds the curve at Cajon (in Cajon Pass, California) and heads toward the famed Sullivan's Curve. This is the train's second round trip ... (more)
As the sun rises over BNSF Railway's B Yard in San Bernardino, California, the volunteers arrive to prepare the 2017 California Division Christmas Train for its two runs on December 16, 2017. BNS... (more)
It is 8:00 pm (20:00) and 91º F (32.7º C) at milepost 14.3 on BNSF's Cajon Subdivision and the sun is touching the western horizon as Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, passes... (more)
In the mid-1980s the MBTA purchased six GP9s from the Burlington Northern for use on trains of depowered RDCs that did not require locomotive HEP. Still wearing GN green, MBTA 1921, a onetime NP u... (more)
A pair of GEVOs, one at each end, take this year's business train to Willmar in some nice evening light.
On July 7, Vermont Rail System ran a special passenger charter for the Keystone Pullman Rail Tours car Frank Thompson, and Bob Lowe's cars, the Salisbury Beach and Colonial Crafts. The train is s... (more)
DRGW 3119 leads the ski train westbound at Plainview, CO, seen exiting Tunnel 1, on Feb 21, 1976.
Recently restored by the Reading Technical & Historical Society, Reading GP30 5513 leads a Souderton Railroad Days excursion under Route 309 at the Telford Middle Siding in Telford, Pennsylvania.
The Potomac Eagle Scenic Railway making a northbound run towards its terminus of Romney, West Virginia.
The Potomac Eagle Scenic Railway making its way through the farmland of Moorefield, West Virginia.
BNSF's 2019 Employee Special rolls west though Cloquet on the Lakes Subdivision after boarding passengers at Carlton.
