Rain is falling hard as a CrossCountry Turbostar train from Birmingham to Peterborough approaches the abandoned signal box and active station platform beyond it in Stamford.

On its way from Aberdeen to Penzance, a CrossCountry Super Voyager set makes its station stop in nice sunlight.

TransPennine Express 1U40 from Scarborough ends its run at York.

A Class 220 Voyager train from Newcastle to Bristol Temple Meads makes its stop under the formidable train shed in York.

The sun is coming down as a train from Cleethorpes enters under the ancient train shed and pulls to a stop.

Acton, UK, April 4, 2023, DB Cargo UK train 6M58 Grovesend Quarry to Quainton Railhead (which ran all three days I went to Acton) is seen her being put together in the marshaling yard with the lea... (more)

Elizabeth Line train 9U81 to Abbey Wood pulls into Acton Main Line station on the Great Western Railway main to make a station stop. This cross or hybrid of a commuter train and a heavy transit tr... (more)

A GB Railfreight container train heads east through Acton Main Line station near London, UK on the morning of April 4, 2023. Power is a Class 66 (aka JT42CWR), the EMD model that has essentially t... (more)

Nothing quite like a big Alco Century... these were the most lovely of brutes, even a former Penn Central one that had been patched for Conrail. Regarding the black dirt, this was the Pit at Meado... (more)

Conrail TV16, a Detroit to North Bergen NJ intermodal train, passes through Haworth NJ on a sunny Saturday morning in autumn.

Despite having tried to railfan the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie main once, this U28B quartet lead overhead is the only Pittsburgh & Lake Erie train I ever saw in my lifetime and it was on the Norfolk &... (more)

This was PO87 (The Ordinary). The Ordinary worked Paterson, Suffern, Greycourt, Middletown, and Port Jervis. On this day it came up the Bergen County Line and then went down to Paterson on the Mai... (more)

A Los Angeles transfer job pulls power and and containers from LATC and onto the River Sub.

The big prize that I went out for last Sunday, March 26, 2023, was P42DC #203, Amtrak's Operation Life Saver unit, which was leading #3. Don't know if the timing has changed on how long the train ... (more)

We've had an Indian Summer of cowl units on Metrolink, as a number of once removed from service F59PHrs are running in regular rotation again.