The folks in the mobile home, lower right, must be getting an earful as Santa Fe 3504 leads another GE and one of Santa Fe’s home-rebuilt CF7s on a southbound freight through one of the still-ru... (more)

Recycling in Eritrea.Almost everything is recycled in this country. This old third class passenger car became the home of a family in the suburbs of the country capital Asmara. It is still wearing... (more)

A pair of SD40-2s help with a Chattanooga-bound coal train. Up front are a pair of SD35s and an SD24.

With a fascinating array of power a loaded CSX train eases down the connector to head southbound on the former Clinchfield RR main.

In 1967, Chicago Burlington & Quincy‘s 114-mile Alliance to Sterling line is not at all what it will become in just a few years, when the flood of coal from the Powder River Basin starts moving ... (more)

A Toledo, Peoria, & Western excursion passes the classic 1889 station .............. in Montchanin, Delaware? Actually, this train is on the Octoraro Railway, shortly after the acquisition of two ... (more)

Due to a derailment on the Overland Route in Wyoming, the NPLAT makes a rare detour via Utah's spectacular Bear River Gorge on April 30, 1994.

Old SP caboose sitting "high and dry" in Cottage Grove.

Late on a spring day, a westbound Santa Fe freight zigzags downgrade through the reverse curves at Caliente. When SP built the line over Tehachapi, its construction crews came right up the very fi... (more)

With stormy weather over the plains and the city of Denver (visible just above the tree line on the ridge) in the background, a westbound Union Pacific manifest freight climbs out of Clay, Colorad... (more)

Many are lamenting the "loss" of the D&H as NS purchases much of the line from the CP. To me, the D&H was lost a long time ago. A classic, late D&H, 3 builder lashup, in 3 paint scheme variatons, ... (more)

Apache Railway was not going to be left out of the nation’s Bi-centennial in 1976, so it painted its diesels red-white-blue too. Five Alco RS-11’s were dragging the substantial interchange fr... (more)

On an overcast August day in 1962, an eastbound Soo Line freight train, led by two F-units and a geep, is crossing the St. Croix River high bridge between Minnesota and Wisconsin. Photograph by Wa... (more)

Dead locomotives abound at the Milwaukee Road’s West Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Shops in this 1980 view from the 35th Street Viaduct. Earlier in the year, the bankrupt railroad had ceased operations ... (more)

Built by Alco in 1941 for the South Buffalo Railway as their 73 then to Fort Howard Paper Company (now Georgia-Pacific - Green Bay Mill) as their 63-146. The museum acquired the engine in 2006 an... (more)