Passing Through America’s Oldest City

Florida East Coast train 107 (an intermodal train heading from Jacksonville to Miami) traverses the S-curve in Saint Augustine, Florida, on Augu... (more)

”Pointless Arrow” on the Silver Star

Rolling into the former Atlantic Coast Line station in Orlando, Florida, is train 92, the northbound Silver Star. This train origi... (more)

GMD SD40s Deep in the Heart of Texas

Texas Gonzales & Northern owns several former Canadian National SD40s, and in 2017 they are due to get repainted into the railroad's own (and new... (more)

Daytime Freight on the Coast Line

BNSF Railway train H-SDGBAR1-22 (High Priority Merchandise - today it is all autoracks - heading from San Diego to Barstow) crosses Santiago Creek a... (more)

So Late, it Departed the Next Day

Amtrak train #3, the westbound Southwest Chief, arrived in Fullerton, California, at 11:52 PM on July 12, 2017 - just a little behind schedul... (more)

A Rare Visitor from South of the Border

Union Pacific train AGVML 01, a loaded automobile train headed for Mira Loma, CA, is unusual in that it has only a single locomotive up front.... (more)

A Rare Visitor from the East

Union Pacific train KAILC 02 (intermodal, Atlanta GA to Los Angeles CA) approaches the railroad’s West Colton Yard in Bloomington, California, on a hot (... (more)

SCL 1776 - The One That Begat Them All

There were two different U36Bs on the Seaboard Coast Line that carried the number "1776." The SCL's U36Bs were being delivered, and 1776:1 was... (more)

Pictures of Lilly

Norfolk Southern train 14G passes through Lilly, a borough of about 1000 people* in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny Mountains. Providing power to get this manifest over t... (more)

Heading Back West After Helping Train 14G

Norfolk Southern’s crossing of the Allegheny Mountains west of Altoona requires a lot of helper sets. And on this line, those helpers are p... (more)

Bringing Up the Rear

Norfolk Southern train 60I.22, consisting of hoppers full of synthetic gypsum (a gray, powdery mineral) passes through Cassandra, Pennsylvania, on June 26, 2017.... (more)

It's Pronounced Duːkeɪn (or "Doo-Cane")

A Union Railroad empty steel slab train passes through the railroad's Duquesne Yard in, of all places, Duquesne, Pennsylva... (more)

Steel City Bound

The annual fire department fund-raising carnival is getting set up in the borough of Lilly, Pennsylvania, on June 26, 2017. The carnival's trucks were still arrivin... (more)

Is the Engineer is "Chillaxing"?

Norfolk Southern manifest freight 10N passes under the classic Pennsylvania Railroad position light signals at the west end of Lilly, Pennsylvania, a... (more)

The New Sign is in Worse Shape than the Old Sign!

The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad constructed its offices and passenger station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1898. One-hundred... (more)