ACWR 200 slowly cuts through Aberdeen with a train for the CSX interchange below town. The conductor protects the crossing as some other fans watch their passage.

ACWR's Candor local departs Aberdeen on the return trip up the Sandhills Sub with a pair of SD40-3s.

This engine would be scrapped here in 1996, after this unfortunate remnant of the Erie had failed. Photo by unknown, from my collection.

Big Sky Wyoming
Montana may employ the phrase “Big Sky Country” to describe its open country and beautiful skies, but Wyoming easily comes in second with its share. Witness a pair o... (more)

A rare morning thunderstorm, currently over the City of Boulder, creates some amazing contrast in the sky as partly cloudy skies dominate to the east over the plains. Under the unusual skies, we f... (more)

Covered hopper cars of a potash train are classified down to their respective East Bowl tracks off East Hump at North Platte, Nebraska, on the afternoon of May 3, 2011.

Pride in the Spotlight: June 2023 marks the first Pride Month with NJ Transit's "Ride with Pride" locomotive in active service. Here, the golden hour light creates a brilliant spo... (more)

50th Anniversary Pepsi can
Amtrak’s 50th Anniversary locomotive No. 160, painted in snazzy “heritage” colors, leads the westbound California Zephyr at Coal Creek Canyon approachin... (more)

One of Amtrak's four short-lived Harry Potter wrapped ACS-64s leads the Vermonter east across the Raritan River viaduct between New Brunswick and Highland Park.

Weed sprayer season is back, as a CPKC weed sprayer train sprays It’s way east through Kirkland with a KCS SD70MAC leader. With the recent merger, seeing consistent KCS motive power around the C... (more)

Canadian National GE ES44DC No. 2284 leads a pair of BNSF EMDs on a westbound BNSF coal train from Powder River Basin heading for Roberts Bank, British Columbia, on Montana Rail Link’s main line... (more)

A BNSF freight enters the Big Ten Curve at Rocky, Colorado as it climbs the grade going west on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

CNW EMD E8A 5021a is being serviced and readied for its next train In Chicago in July of 1979

Conrail CA-20 works the Hainesport Secondary Railroad interchange near sunset. This trackage is within the Hainesport Industrial Park, served via Conrail's Pembnerton Industrial Track. CA-20's t... (more)

Metro-North heritage unit P32AC-DM 208 departing the Cold Spring station.