BNSF 9242 and 6339 give a shove as DPUs on an eastbound coal empties headed from Roberts Bank, BC back to the Powder River Basin for another load. They are skirting the Clark Fork on the Montana R... (more)

Welded rail rolled at Colorado Fuel & Iron (CF&I) in 1997 stands ready for the task of supporting the eastbound Ski Train, which is approaching around the curve in the distance. Little did anybody... (more)

Train between Dawlish and Teignmouth with rocks and the sea. The same train a few seconds earlier you see on #417176

Q380-02 rolls EB with 6 new M8 cars bringing up the markers. Cars were built in Lincoln, NE and carry KRMX reporting marks until delivery to Connecticut DOT and then they get CDOT marks. Cars were... (more)

Back before Clifton Forge was seriously downsized...

Passing the torch. One of the stark realities of steam railroad operations is that most of the men who serviced and ran the locomotives in actual service are gone now. Even the first coupl... (more)

It’s Sunday, June 24, 1956, and Louisville & Nashville M-1 class number 1962—one of the memorable “Big Emma” 2-8-4s that worked the eastern side of the system, in Kentucky only—slowly ba... (more)

Deconstruction of a U-Boat

Former Southern GP30 2598 sits at the closed Sprouse Creek Preparation Plant on the Norfolk Southern Alma Branch.

Frog Pond is almost, but not completely frozen over. A small creek coming down the mountainside has left an opening in the ice, providing a nice spot to see through the clear (but very cold) water... (more)

Cresson, PA 2/23/2013 - Beheaded: Norfolk Southern SD-40 3200 has lost all but its cab as the scrappers turn this 1972-built EMD into piles of unrecognizable steel. Originally a Southern Railway S... (more)

New meets old as two brand new IHB gensets pass the soon to be closed Calumet Tower.

Just before a spring shower hits Clinton, an empty coal train headed for the Powder River Basin makes a crew change. I never would have said this to the guys in the photo (I had friends on both c... (more)

The tall and short of it. The Army bought them and the Army doesn't want them. Numbers 6000, 6001 & 6002 are now sitting on the ground, they have been stripped of all useful parts and what is left... (more)

The tall and short of it. The Army bought them and the Army doesn't want them. Numbers 6000, 6001 & 6002 are now sitting on the ground, they have been stripped of all useful parts and what is left... (more)