Little kids have their Day Out With Tomas. Big kids have better tings to do. Great day out.

Imagine you had these little beauties, a vintage freight train, several miles of track, plenty of time and a cooperative, friendly crew. Yes, it was a nice day. I’d trade 10 fantrips for one g... (more)

MILW 943 appears to have an exclusive parking spot in downtown Eau Claire. The unit spent the weekend here, about a block east of their depot and small yard.

The Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum (BSRM) is proud to announce the acquisition of First Light 1849 (nee Boston & Maine 1113), a 1941 Electro-Motive Division (EMD) SW-1, from the Mt. Tom Energy Pl... (more)

Commonwealth Edison had a pair of SW1s that served the State Line Generating Plant on the Indiana/Illinois border. COMX 3 is seen switching around the complex while a set of empty Burlington Nort... (more)

Led by a former Penn Central SW1, a pair of Superliners head south from Union Station through the jungle of switches outside the former CB&Q Railway Express Agency building. Tom Golden photo.

NIRC 1 leads a power move east past the New Lenox depot. This classic Rock Island depot may soon be demolished.

B&O #8408 eases her Autumn Leaf Special passed the dam and waterfall at Sharpless Road

B&O #8408 eases her Autumn Leaf Special towards downtown Hockessin

This EMD switcher is an old-timer, having been built for Southern Railway in 1947. The natty little switcher is at Armour Yard in Atlanta to switch the cars for excursions behind N&W class A 1218.

Boston & Maine SW1 1128 and the crew of the Bemis Branch local freight run around a boxcar before easing it into an industrial spur in Waltham, MA. This short branch was a stub-end remnant of the ... (more)

Wilmington and Western locomotive 8408 pulls the 2:30 Autumn Leaf train through the former NVF complex in Yorklyn, DE. The complex has undergone a huge clean up, in the hopes to redevelop the site... (more)

Lost and Found Department:

Former New Hope and Ivyland SW1 No. 9423 survives today at SMS, still wearing he... (more)

The Great Western Railway still operates a SW1 at the small yard in Johnstown, Colorado.