The CN 2962 is starting the drop down the 3% grade off the highest point on the Canadian National Railway. The spur serves the Teck's Luscar coal processing plant. The coking coal is moved by hea... (more)

The Florida-bound Orange Blossom Special arrives from its Conrail origins at East Side Yard in Philadelphia. After a CSX crew goes on duty, the train will continue south to Richmond and poi... (more)

Through the Burgh

On a warm and humid Sunday morning, Allegheny Valley 3003, a rebuilt SD45, slowly makes it's way through downtown Pittsburgh. The streets were fairly quiet, but l... (more)

A pair of GP60s work the industries on Jones Island as a now seldom-used gantry crane looks on. After collecting their salt and grain loads, they will pull 40 cars up the grade back to Butler Yar... (more)

Conrail Lives? Not really, CR as in Central De Romana, a standard gauge Sugar hauling railroad in southeast Dominican Republic. While trying to shoot a train in the sugar mill nearby off the top o... (more)

A pair of Regional Transit District silver-liners pull from RTD's 38th Street station and ditch the Denver skyline as they head farther toward the outskirts of town in the day's last bit of deteri... (more)

Crossing the Sheboygan River in Sheboygan Falls, C&NW 4287 crawls thru town at walking speed. Once part of a thru line to Fond Du Lac, it was systematically cut back to Kohler, only to be partiall... (more)

In all the times I've tried to chase the Second Watson after shooting it at Watson Yard, I would say I only catch up to it again maybe 10% of the time. Today was one of those times, as it is seen ... (more)

In honor of the 40th Anniversary of the NY Transit Museum, a number of special trains were operated on the weekend of June 25-26, 2016. The unusual, but still all BMT lashup of 6112 (D-Type Triple... (more)

The action take place at the Borovichi Brick factory. K10 narrow gauge electric pusher on the loading of clay...

Upon stepping off the train at Union Station on my first trip to Chicago, Bill Rosenberg and I trekked up to the CNW terminal to catch the afternoon rush. I knew steam was still in service there.

A tiny Trackmobile 5TM goes about switching hoppers to the NS interchange at Essroc's Cleveland Terminal

Under forest fire-hazed skies, the Denver Rock Island Railroad runs 553 (new to the data base) along Packinghouse Road in north Denver. The confines are pretty narrow as the track runs directly ad... (more)