Valley Railroad 3025 simmers at the Essex station on a beautiful late afternoon.

Moving Fuel. On the afternoon of May 26, 2019, Norfolk Southern Train 776 (Shire Oaks, PA-Hyco, NC) with coal loads passed Train 65E (Linden, NJ-Chicago, IL) with ethanol empties in Summer... (more)

In a boisterous thundering of smoke and power, K-36 480 shows off for the photographers of Dak Dillon's photo train at the famed cement wall just south of Cascade Canyon.

"HIGHBALL!": Reading & Northern T1 #2102, a 4-8-4 Northern, blasts out of Jim Thorpe, PA on the afternoon of May 25, 2024 enroute for Reading hauling the first Ramble of the R&N's 2024 p... (more)

Reading and Northern T-1 4-8-4 2102 is crossing the trestle at Hometown, PA on the return trip from Jim Thorpe to Reading. This is the first of the extremely popular Iron Horse Rambles for 2024.

Agrestic May Morning | The golden sun of a warm Saturday, May 25, 2024 morning shines on fields just north of Westville, OK where CPKC intermodal train I181 continues its journey north.

As needed grain train arrives in Buffalo with a foreign trailing Ferromex SD70ACe.

This week, I had the immense privilege to witness CP 2816, the "Empress" 4-6-4 Hudson steam locomotive, make its trek south on the Final Spike Steam Tour celebrating the Canadian Pacific... (more)

It was kind of neat when CN assigned the EJ&E heritage unit to Proctor for a short stint. Here it was leading a stone train up to the U.S. Steel Minntac plant.

Canadian Pacific 2816 leads the CPKC Final Spike Anniversary Steam Tour across the Elk River Bridge near Lanagan as it heads toward Heavener

Canadian Pacific 2816, "The Empress", leads the CPKC Final Spike Anniversary Steam Tour train across one of the arched bridges outside of Kansas City as it heads south toward Heavener

A pair of ES40DCs lead an autorack train north past Nashville Union Station.

Thanks to Metrolink train 606 breaking down in Santa Fe Springs, and Metrolink train 608 also stopping there to pick up 606's passengers, Metrolink train 712 (91/Perris Valley Line; Los Angeles to... (more)

The Henderson Overton Branch job makes its way back to Henderson after dropping off 29 empties at Overton for interchange with UP. LTEX 3905 still wears its unique Baja California Railroad livery.

CN A489 heads through downtown Jackson as it approaches CN's North Yard. In trail is Bessemer and Lake Erie #907, an SD40T-3. Once used extensively on Minnesota's Iron Range, this engine has spent... (more)