The mining near Soudan, MN began operation in 1882 as a open pit mine operation, and moved to underground mining by 1900 for safety reasons. From 1901 until the end of active mining in 1962, the S... (more)

Silent equipment of the former McCloud Railway.

"Smoke and Steam": Baldwin Locomotive Works #26 quietly builds pressure within the peaceful confines of the former Lackawanna Railroad roundhouse at Steamtown National Historic Site next... (more)

DM&IR 2-8-0 332 leads the 9am Duluth Zephyr out of town.

Viewed from the abandoned Western Maryland bridge over the Baltimore & Ohio main line at Rockwood, Pennsylvania, a Western Maryland SD40 gives an eastbound B&O train a shove toward Sand Patch.

Likely one of the tightest curves 4014 will encounter on its journey is this section on BNSF in Superior, Wisconsin. Here the massive 4-8-8-4 is "walked" through the curve with a little ... (more)

Blue hour Saturday morning as Big Boy slumbers at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth after its run up BNSF from the Twin Cities.

Passing through Warwick, NY on December 2, 2018, the Operation Toy Train continuing on their route to pick up donations. Once an average box car, DRRV 1947 was one of several repainted into a mili... (more)

The pair of BNSF C4 Gevos on the head of this Greenville & Western unit ethanol train look extremely out of place on a piece of track being reclaimed by the Carolina woods.

AT&L CF7 2491 has been retired, seen at Geary, Oklahoma on May 1, 2019 visible parts are slowly being removed.

The Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus train rolls west through Perkiomen Junction, Pennsylvania. The rails in the foreground are the former Reading Perkiomen Branch, which ran from here to ... (more)

A look inside the paint booth finds CSX 2428 getting prepped for a coat of YN3B. The unit is former L&N 1274. Taken with permission.

MSCI 488 pulls into the Mississippi Central yard in Holly Springs, Mississippi with a cut of cars from storage that will be handed off to BNSF later here at Holly Springs.

CSX ES44AH's 1776 (formerly 3112) and 911 have been repainted into special schemes honoring first responders and veterans at their locomotive shop in Huntington, West Virginia.

CSX ES44AH's 911 and 1776 have been repainted into special schemes honoring first responders and veterans at their locomotive shop in Huntington, West Virginia.