Clinchfield 800 leads the Heritage Highball from New Haven, KY to Ravenna, KY across the trestle at Howard Creek.

"USWX 400 at the Maspeth Industrial Center" Waste Management's Mother/Slug combo leads New York & Atlantic Railway's RS-90 through the Maspeth Industrial Center at Flushing Ave on the Bush... (more)

A cold day in Echo Canyon. Union Pacific's two heritage steam locomotives stream long, steamy plumes in the cold morning air as the special train races through Echo Canyon on the last leg o... (more)

There are still traces of snow on the ground from the previous weekend's storms, as a Long Island Rail Road EMD DE30AC is caught by the setting sun leading its train out of Long Island City yard t... (more)

“Modus Operandi: N2A”
The St. Louis Trailer Train, powered by Chessie System/ B&O GP40-2 4137, CS/B&O GP40-2 4425, and C&O SD40 7562, in N2A configuration, is westbound on Track 1, c... (more)

On the evening of January 3rd 2018, a loaded Coal Train blasts out of the loading yard past 82 Station at the bottom of the grade out of Sandaoling Open Cut Coal Mine, Nth West China.

A heavy westbound CSX freight climbs the grade up Sand Patch at Mance, Pennsylvania, on the colorful autumn day of October 22, 1988.

“Truncated Orange Blossom”
With only two engines (Chessie System/B&O GP40-2 4296 and Seaboard System/SBD U30C 7238), and fewer than 20 trailers, an unusually short Orange Blossom Spe... (more)

A westbound B&O manifest with a blue B&O GP40 and two Chessie geeps rolls through the cut at Whitemarsh, Maryland.

The SP Board of Directors tour the Shasta Route on a hot August day. Paint on the SDPs was so fresh you could smell it as the train went by.

The Board of Directors tours the Shasta Route in summer 1987. This train ran through to Portland, and then returned to California via the Siskiyou Line.

Because the tiny Bostic yard is already packed, a long Clinchfield-bound manifest freight has pulled down the line to Forest City to clear the main for a sb/eb coal train off the CRR. Once the un... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

Let it snow! Just after being re-assigned to CNW's Cleveland sales office, I ventured over to see the famous former NYC Collinwood facilities. I was rewarded with an eclectic group of pre-Conrail ... (more)