Snowy Night On The Erie. A day long snowfall on December 29, 2012 blanketed the northeast. At the yard in Port Jervis, New York, former Erie Railroad EMD E8 833 sits on the Erie Turntable. ... (more)

Freshly painted Mass Coastal 2011 is seen at the company headquarters in Onset loading the crew for the Polar Express excursions two days before Christmas. This locomotive was built as New Haven 2... (more)

A Westbound Central of Georgia Railway freight train no. 29 passes West Opelika signal in March of 1954. Photo by J. Parker Lamb.

Lightning Striped Reunion. On one of its first trips on the Danbury Line since being wrapped, MNCW P32AC-DM 211 (New York Central Heritage/40th Anniversary) was assigned to MTA Metro-North ... (more)

Fall foliage special heads back to Reading.

Central of Georgia F3(A) 904 with two GP7's on this southbound freight at Hapeville near Atlanta, Georgia on May 10, 1953. Photo by Ronald Sharpless, from my collection. ... (more)

Tennessee Central Railway Museum's Fall Yard Sale excursion to Watertown passes through Lebanon on it's return to Nashville.

Tennessee Central Railway Museum's Fall Yard Sale excursion to Watertown passes through Mt. Juliet on it's return to Nashville.

The annual CN-IC Santa Train is heading north across the TP&W. While this tradition continued for a few more years, this turned out to be the last time any of the E-units would be used.

OKLAHOMA CITY OK (January) 1975 — ATSF F7A 275L gleams in the sun while pausing at Nowers Yard. EMD built the phase II unit in November-December 1953 (b/n 18923) and delivered it in blue with ch... (more)

Classic streamlined Clinchfield 800 leads an Ohio Rail Experience excursion north, passing DT&I codeline still showing a mile measurement so crews could eyeball their speed in days long past.

How the mighty have fallen. By the time of this shot this former SOU 6913 had been sold, evidently to a fan as the old logo has been applied. It got worse, but I think this classic still is in e... (more)

AT&SF train 21, El Capitan, is seen near Trinidad Colorado in 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Amtrak 352 and mates endure late winter weather at the famous Zephyr Pit south of Union Station. The 3 E8s are former Burlington/BN units, with conventional steam generators for handling Amtrak's ... (more)

Getting Some Air At Delair. Juniata Terminal Railroad's former Pennsylvania Railroad E8 5711 was joined by cars "120" and "Warrior Ridge" (1157) and bookended with JTCX ... (more)