The long run down 2nd St thru town is about over.

Spine line train crossing under the CNW mains

A southbound manifest with a trio of EMD's is howling through Chehalis, WA, at track speed in the last rays of sunlight.

The southbound NHN job is seen here arriving at a location known as Tri-City to do some switching. Recently rebuilt GP38-2 #3823 leads two sisters 3825 and FURX 5509.

QR National GE CM30-8 2811 is framed by the repeating pattern of steel trusses on the Alexandria Bridge as it is about the cross the mighty Fitzroy River at Rockhampton on Australia Day, January 2... (more)

Next Stop: Willow Street!

A Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority "Blue Line" train approaches the Willow Street Station in Long Beach, California, on December 29,... (more)

Grain for Gonzales

It is October 27, 2016, and a Texas Gonzales and Northern train has arrived in Gonzales, about 12 miles from the yard in Harwood at the opposite end of the railroa... (more)

Cab Forward to Gonzales!

A short freight consisting of grain hoppers departs the Texas Gonzales and Northern yard in Harwood, Texas, and makes its way to Gonzalez to switch some elev... (more)

A Mainstay of North American Railroading

With all the changes in railroading over the last few decades, more and more "railroady" items - such as searchlight signals, marke... (more)

Terre Haute Cuisine? Slugs!

A CSX local heads back to the yard in Terre Haute, Indiana, on July 11th, 2016. Leading the train is CSXT 2275, a road slug that began life as Chesapeak... (more)

Super Bowl Bound

On a stormy January 30th, 1988, a four-car Santa Fe officers' special rushes south across the San Luis Rey River Bridge at the river's mouth (where it empties into t... (more)

On the second day of excursions with Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 3985, the big Challenger envelops its train with coal smoke (yes, it was still coal fired at this time) as it passes the USS Geneva Work ... (more)

A 26-car Canadian National ore train, with SD75I 5743 for power, accelerates toward the Canadian Pacific crossing at Duplainville, in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, on November 16th, 2015. The ore cars, wh... (more)

As game time approaches, baseball fans arrive by trolley for a day game between the Baltimore Orioles and the visiting Boston Red Sox. (Unfortunately, the home team would lose in 11 innings.) Th... (more)

San Diego's Metropolitan Transit System is the oldest of the "second generation" light rail systems in the United States, having begun service on July 26, 1981. A little over thirty yea... (more)