Steamscape: American Flat. The Virginia & Truckee Railway's Virginia City Train runs north (compass west) around the horseshoe curve, above the long-abandoned mill complex known as American... (more)
Normally no train passes by this elegant ex-Rutland station at night. It took an odd set of circumstances, an Iron Road Excursion train of private cars being re-routed up Vermont Rail System, to o... (more)
Help Wanted: A BNSF helper set shoves on the rear end of an eastbound manifest freight heading up the western slope of Marias Pass. The train is seen here, crossing the Goat Lick Trestle ne... (more)
Following Saturday's passenger extra from Boston, MA to Mechanicville, NY, the Pan Am Railway FP9s, PAR-2 and PAR-1, were pushed into service to haul a set of intermodal wells back to Ayer from Me... (more)
BNSF 7289 charges into the canyon in Kingman, AZ as the four units roar with life; try to move this 2 mile long stack train across Arizona.
Canadian Pacific’s wayfreight between Golden and Cranbrook approaches Canal Flats, British Columbia, on July 16, 2011. Three SD40-2s power the train, led by CP No. 5942
Amtrak number 8, the eastbound Empire Builder, carries former California Zephyr dome-observation Silver Solarium with the markers as the train passes through Marias, Montana, on September 8, 1999.
On the peak day of Washington DC's Cherry Blossoms, Amtrak's westbound Cardinal slides past the Washington Monument under repair.
Climbing through Deen Tunnel on Tennessee Pass east of Pando, Colorado, on August 1, 1996 is a heavy Southern Pacific coal train. The 242-foot Deen Tunnel, sometimes also called Pando Tunnel, is s... (more)
WW 811, built as NKP 811 in 1959, crosses the Maurice River on the ex-CNJ bound for Vineland and Millville.
RBMN 3055 exits the east portal of White Haven Tunnel while leading a deadhead move of RBMN passenger equipment from Tunkhannock to Port Clinton.
The fields below the Moodna Viaduct are full of spring flowers as a Port Jervis bound train heads north.
Running along the Turnagain Arm between Anchorage and Portage, an Alaska RR coal train from Healy to Seward continues its journey south on a chilly March morning.