A PHL Dock Job has just pulled a cut of cars from Berth 200 Yard and begins to shove them back towards Badger Bridge with the experimental Joule doing all the work.

Inside the Montana Rail Link’s headquarters building in Missoula, Montana, are the dispatchers that are keeping the railroad’s trains moving on October 7, 2005.

Beech Mountain SW 1500 ex CSX 1118 has brought a second cut of loads from the loadout, run around its train and shoved them to the interchange with the A&O. The next day another load of WV coal w... (more)

Ready for the Road. Three UP rebuilds mixed in with four new BNSF's locos at Wabtec. With a BNSF southbound DPU passing by.

A perfectly matched A-B-A set of NYC lightning stripes FA's, hustled westbound on track 3 with a coal train at Lyons, N.Y. on October 17, 1956. Photo by David R. Connor, from my collection. ... (more)

A string of long-stored Union Pacific EMD SD9043MAC locomotives sit in a yard track near the Progress Rail Services facility south of Bill, Wyoming, on July 11, 2023.

Golden Ski Train Sunrise plays a tapestry of light and shadow with the rolling fields of the high plains below the Front Range between Denver and Plainview with Winter Park Express hig... (more)

Right after the passage of BNSF’s Cowley turn in Himes Canyon, maintenance-of-way got track and time in the block so they could continue working on a washout that occurred in the middle of the c... (more)

The Santa Fe still lives on in the Museum these days.

The Savage Bingham & Garfield has applied a wrap / paint job to one of their GP38's. I was able to go over and get an afternoon shot, of this salute to veterans themed unit.

"Toss the Pan and Keep it Movin'"

On the afternoon of October 29th, 2023 Amtrak ACS-64 605 suffered an issue with its pantograph between New Haven Union & State Street stati... (more)

It's the end of the line for a trio of switchers that spent almost 75 years in Bethlehem, PA, mostly working the Bethlehem Steel plant. They were part of a large group of switchers that had been s... (more)

On Home Rails CNZR 905, an ex-MBTA (née New Haven) GP10 sits dormant in Bloomfield. This orange paint originates from SEMTA, a defunct Detroit commuter railroad, although it survived thro... (more)

Biscotasi & the Great Beyond - VIA's #186 speeds east across the Lake Biscotasi causeway after dropping paddlers and anglers at the flagstop here minutes before. Biscotasi is interconnected with a... (more)

Well, good news! The derail works!

Just over two hours earlier, at 7:00, this Union Pacific switch job derailed as it was bringing a cut of cars forward (eastward) to cle... (more)