After picking up the cast and crew at the company HQ in Onset, the Polar Express consist is seen heading South approaching Buzzards Bay at Taylor. The train has just passed over Cohasset Narrows. ... (more)

Freshly painted Mass Coastal 2011 is seen at the company headquarters in Onset loading the crew for the Polar Express excursions two days before Christmas. This locomotive was built as New Haven 2... (more)

A Westbound Central of Georgia Railway freight train no. 29 passes West Opelika signal in March of 1954. Photo by J. Parker Lamb.

Lightning Striped Reunion. On one of its first trips on the Danbury Line since being wrapped, MNCW P32AC-DM 211 (New York Central Heritage/40th Anniversary) was assigned to MTA Metro-North ... (more)

Fall foliage special heads back to Reading.

Central of Georgia F3(A) 904 with two GP7's on this southbound freight at Hapeville near Atlanta, Georgia on May 10, 1953. Photo by Ronald Sharpless, from my collection. ... (more)

Tennessee Central Railway Museum's Fall Yard Sale excursion to Watertown passes through Lebanon on it's return to Nashville.

Tennessee Central Railway Museum's Fall Yard Sale excursion to Watertown passes through Mt. Juliet on it's return to Nashville.

The annual CN-IC Santa Train is heading north across the TP&W. While this tradition continued for a few more years, this turned out to be the last time any of the E-units would be used.

OKLAHOMA CITY OK (January) 1975 — ATSF F7A 275L gleams in the sun while pausing at Nowers Yard. EMD built the phase II unit in November-December 1953 (b/n 18923) and delivered it in blue with ch... (more)

Monon F units photographed inside the Monon Railroad Lafayette, IN shops on 08/02/59 using ASA 10 Kodachrome. Original Kodachrome slide. Photographer unknown, John E. Troxler collection.

Monon Shops, Lafayette, IN, 08/02/59. Original Kodachrome slide, photographer unknown, John E. Troxler collection.

Running on Western Maryland rails, FP9 243 looks the part leading a freight train towards Elkins.

How the mighty have fallen. By the time of this shot this former SOU 6913 had been sold, evidently to a fan as the old logo has been applied. It got worse, but I think this classic still is in e... (more)

AT&SF train 21, El Capitan, is seen near Trinidad Colorado in 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.