In the railroading industry, especially on the short line side, the ability to improvise & adapt to changes in the plan are a necessity. A couple of Pickens employees had arrived at the Vulcan Qua... (more)

A colorful assortment of locomotives sit at the Nashville & Eastern’s shops in Lebanon, Tennessee.

CFS 644, 647, 8033 and 1828 at Scott-Jonction terminal

With a fresh crew on board of the Nickel Plate heritage unit, NS 743 begins to pull from Bluefield yard to head out onto the Pokey main.

A pair of Grand Trunk Western GP38-2's, 4933 and 4914, switch Rowell Chemical on a hot and hazy afternoon along the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal in Willow Springs. Dubbed L535, this train origi... (more)

The Chicago skyline stands tall 23 miles away as ArcelorMittal SW1500 #111, one of the many locomotives on the #1 leader in steel's roster, shoves a bottle train into the massive East Chicago plan... (more)

A late-running Pickens waited on a track crew to finish work in this area and meanders through the work limits, passing a quarry.

Q433 departs selkirk as K163 enters. Storm clouds were approaching.

NS OCS crosses the Tennessee River @ Chattanooga Tn .

The yard locos scramble in the golden morning light. On 8488’s train is a red caboose presumably destined for Schenectady where a high and wide load resides.

A trio of six axle EMD's on the NYSW CL-1 job returning south from Syracuse have stopped to work in Tully, New York. The crew slowly backs the power down the spur into the Tully Ag Center to pick ... (more)

Westbound coal loads pass Ashlands Amtrak Station.

A Union Pacific coal train passes the bungalow at MP 43.0 at Reno Junction, Wyoming, on May 30, 2009. In the background, a train heads east on the spur out of Reno junction to either Black Thunder... (more)

The Finger Lakes Railway's eastbound GS-2 slowly makes its way across the Owasco River in Auburn, New York. A construction project to replace the State Street bridge over the river has opened up t... (more)