Dropping down the original California Southern Railroad 1885-built grade across Cajon Pass, Santa Fe C30-7 8094, SD45 5396, SD40-2 5206 and Burlington Northern SD40-2 6353 are a nice mix of diesel... (more)

Train L516, the daily train from New Brighton, MN to Stevens Point, WI runs east at sunset. The setting sun casts a warm glow but the fresh snowpack lends an arctic feel to the scene. One of the f... (more)

Mishap at the BNSF Denver Shops
Teamwork on a snowy cold morning in Denver, CO. BNSF 9025 gets a helping hand back on the track after running on the ground. 2/6/22

4 years ago the Minneapolis Sub saw a wider range of locomotive types than it does these days, including foreign road power. At dusk in a spring snowfall a UP and an NS EMD pair up on train L516, ... (more)

A long way from home and definitely a rarity in Northern Ontario, Executive Mac 9431 idles on the pool 8 leads awaiting its next assignment. The CP Fort William depot is visible in the back left.

UPY 625 is one of many ex-Missouri Pacific GP15-1's that can be found working the North Yard in Denver, Colorado.

Westbound Ft. Madison, IA, to Pearland, TX, auto train has a neat treat for the afternoon Transcon. A pair of KCS units head up this train as they make their way west on the Marceline Sub just wes... (more)

A former NS SD70M-2 leads the NYSW's CL-1 as it crosses the truss bridge over Erie Boulevard in Syracuse, New York and heads to the south end of the siding here to pick up its outbound train for C... (more)

CN 595 dashes past MP 138 CN Newmarket Sub on its way to service the Stepan Chemical facility in Longford Mills. Stepan closed all Canadian operations in late 2016, leaving the facility empty and ... (more)

It is last light on the Troy Grove Sub. UP 1038 and crew have made it across the BNSF diamond in Earlville. Here, the train is crossing Highway 34 as they bust through yet another plow line.

13.4 miles left to Berkeley Run Junction, and three A&O geeps are hauling 80 loads of coal past the intermediate signals in Phillipi. This line is the last place to find B&O CPLs in West Virginia,... (more)

Do you think they lose cable every time a train passes? I'd live there anyway, gladly! Three A&O geeps arrive in Alexander to pick up 80 cars of West Virginia coal from the Beech Mountain.

With an emphasis on the *narrow* part of its name, The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad's Cascade Canyon Express eases along the shelf track hundreds of feet above the Animas River along ... (more)

Steamscape: Lower Tunnel. Nevada Northern's Baldwin Consolidation #81 charges out of the Lower Tunnel near MP 141.8, as she hauls a short passenger consist south (compass west) through Robi... (more)

Feeling Right at Home

Other than the lettering in the tender herald, Strasburg Rail Road’s 2-6-0 89 bears a close resemblance to its in-service days at the grade crossing at Carp... (more)