Here's another forgotten slide of half a dozen Southern cabooses. The railroad was already Norfolk Southern but there's no evidence of the merger here. The number X420 goes along with Sweetwater 4... (more)

Illinois Central’s Markham Local speeds southbound between Peotone and Manteno, Illinois, on a clear January 21, 1989. Leading the train is solid orange Illinois Central Gulf EMD GP10 No. 8186.

This unit was a regular there and today is doing the regular shuffle of cars.

A Conrail GP30 and N5C cabin car occupy the Ford Lead in Teterboro, NJ. Both trace their heritage to the Pennsylvania Railroad via Penn Central. The Ford Lead is former Erie/Erie Lackawanna indu... (more)

For over thirty years, before the Reading & Northern came to town, George Hart’s Rail Tours, Inc. provided excursions out of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Here passengers prepare to board a train pu... (more)

A westbound MARC train passes through the settlement of Boyds, Maryland on the former Baltimore & Ohio Metropolitan Subdivision. Both of these locomotives plied these rails as B&O road units in th... (more)

Any white-water rafting trip to West Virginia and the New River isn't complete without a side excursion to Thurmond. The National Park Service had just recently taken control of Thurmond during th... (more)

1973 I took an extended trip west in my Maverick with my Collie and made an early morning stop in Chihuahua at the shops.

On a rainy November afternoon, Canadian National train 35, the Montreal-Toronto Bonaventure, rattles the old brick station at Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, as it speeds west behind a pair of MLW ... (more)

The 09.27 Berlin Friedrichstrasse - Westerland express leaves Berlin Zoo.

Power of Tomorrow, Today

That’s the slogan that EMD applied to their four SD60 demonstrators before sending them out for evaluation. Here EMD-4 rolls westward through Newburg, We... (more)

Dallas Union Terminal in January 1964. Santa Fe (ATSF) E8A #87 on train No.11 the Kansas Cityan, Rock Island (CRI&P) E6A #630 on train No.17 the Twin Star Rocket, and the Colorado & Southern E5A ... (more)

Spokane, Portland & Seattle GP9 151 and F7A 802 on roundtable.

An Amtrak work train behind an RS-3 gets attention from its crew outside Providence Union Station in the Rhode Island capitol. The 1898 station in the background was replaced by the current Amtrak... (more)

As an eastbound train drifts downgrade toward Altoona, an ex-Penn Central SD40 and an ex-Erie Lackawanna SD45 push a westbound up the last portion of the grade before entering the tunnel at Tunnel... (more)