ALCO Safari Day 9, Burlington Jct. Rwy. and the Ugly Duckling: On my way home to Minnesota, I decided to make a quick stop in Burlington, IA to catch the BJRY, who has the only two operatio... (more)

Arcade and Attica 65 tonner number 112 and 80 tonner number 113 pull a cut of covered hoppers out of the Reisdorf Brothers feed mill at the end of the line in North Java, NY.

Ouachita Railroad GMD-1 #23 rests alongside Camden & Southern SW-9 #20 at the South Arkansas Intermodal Park in Camden, AR.

On a humid afternoon, a trio of Gary Railway SW1200's pull on a cut of empty CSX coke cars. All three are former EJ&E units that survived the CN takeover long enough to avoid the scrapper's torch.... (more)

After picking up their train from the B&P interchange west of town, the Arcade and Attica cross over W Main Street with a healthy 8 car train in tow.

The northbound Arcade and Attica freight train crosses over Beaver Meadows road on a bridge with a pair of GE centercabs for power. The train will soon reach the end of the railroad at Reisdorf Br... (more)

All is quiet on the Ashtabula, Carson, & Jefferson as 7371 awaits its next assignment being dwarfed by a grain elevator.

Michigan Northern 1501 switches cars in the yard at Cadillac. Once all lined up, the train will depart for Grand Rapids.

Belfast and Moosehead Lake #51 sits idle among weeds at the City Point station outside of Belfast, Maine. This is now where the tracks end, with the rest of the line into the actual town now servi... (more)

The three RS-12's on Michigan Northern's roster pause at Walton Junction, MI to cool off their traction motors. Of the three units, the equivalent of about one and a half are working, making the ... (more)

A soon to be no more, Fillmore & Western weekend excursion train trundles towards downtown on what was once the mainline of the Southern Pacific railroad between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

One of the last ever trains of the soon to be no more Fillmore & Western climbs Bellio Hill in rural Fillmore California, with mighty-might S6 1059 doing all the work, pulling not only six passeng... (more)

After a painfully slow trip down the decrepit former Southern/CofG from Lafayette, the Pine Belt Southern crew waits for the go-ahead from CSX to run a couple miles down their former WofA main int... (more)

Back when cabooses where made of wood, and railroaders where made of steel.