April Showers NS 22X rolls east down the hill into a severe thunderstorm. If you look closely, you can see NS 8025, the Monongahela heritage unit third out.

Lonely History. The Leaderfoot Viaduct still stands over the River Tweed, awaiting another train since the last one crossed its majestic structure in July 1965.

Covering nearly every inch of the rail but the rail head, grease has accumulated on about a 15 foot section of rail at the lubricator pumps. The grease is used to protect the wheel and rail from ... (more)

On a snowy night the GSMR Bryson City car sits in downtown Bryson City waiting the night for tomorrow's excursion.

The Classic Insull Style. The sole survivor on an active railroad of the eleven Mediterranean Revival style stations constructed during Samuel Insull's ownership of the area interurbans can... (more)

The crew has finished loading 145 ore cars up at Minntac has called for signals to depart and head back towards Two Harbors. RTC has given them the lights to proceed.

Metra in Texas on display in the museum

A Grand Birthday. On February 1, 1913, the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad opened the Beaux-Arts style Reed and Stem/Warren and Wetmore designed Grand Central Terminal to the publi... (more)

Top Design. It was not an April Fools' joke but very real on February 1, 2007, when the platforms at Grand Central on the MTA NYCT Subway 42nd Street Shuttle were given an upgrade by the re... (more)

LIRR Goes To The Movies. On January 31, 2013, morning commuters noticed a change to the MTA Long Island Rail Road Bayside Station in Bayside, Queens, New York. Signs informing passengers of... (more)

Minsk Children's Railroad. It is fully operated by teenagers. One of many children's railways that existed in the USSR and continued functioning after its breakup in post-Soviet states, it was ope... (more)

Subtle northern lights illuminate the horizon while the approach signal illuminates the ground on the CN Keenan sub.

Darkest Before Dawn In Westernport. The Western Maryland Railroad Station Museum and Park in Westernport, Maryland sits dark on the night of November 21, 2019. The museum itself reopened af... (more)

A train of iron ore headed to Two Harbors approaches the green signal at Noimi Jct. while heading down the CN Minntac sub on a foggy evening.

Espee Tank. The waste water collection tank at the Union Pacific facility/Amtrak station in Dunsmuir, California is a lasting memory of the Southern Pacific Lines. Depicted is SP 6839 (SD45... (more)