The Northern Pacific Depot in Aitkin is significant as a local landmark symbolizing the importance of the railroad in the growth and development of the community. Aitkin was founded shortly after ... (more)

This Soo Line Depot was built in 1910 and was part of a 1908 - 1910 project to build a rail line from Superior, Wisconsin to Thief River Falls, Minnesota along with a branch through Crosby to acce... (more)

A large portion of the outdoor collection of the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum in Bellevue, OH is displayed next to Southwest Street. Wabash F7A 671, NKP GP 30 900, and NKP RSD-12 329 headine a ... (more)

A mural under the Metra E111/Pullman Station on the former Illinois Central electric line protrays scenes for the industrial past of the neighborhood near the Pullman National Monument, National P... (more)

IHB's Blue Island Yard shortly before sunset.

The new baord members of the East Broad Top Foundation, (left to right) Lawrence Biemiller, Bennett Levin, Wick Moorman, Henry Posner III, Jane Sheffield, Brad Esposito, and David Brightbill pose... (more)

The crowd gathered at just after 1100 on, Friday, February 14, 2020, in Orbisonia, PA to hear the announcement that control of the East Broad Top Railroad was assumed by the East Broad Top Foundat... (more)

Are you busy at 1100? The East Broad Top Railroad has publicized that they have an announcement for the public on February 14, 2020 at 1100. Since the railroad ceased operations in 2011, speculati... (more)

Hope is a good thing, perhaps the best of things. While SEPTA withdrew the PCC-IIs from service and that the Route 15 will have bus operation only indefinitely, concurrently construction seems to ... (more)

The Schenectady Amtrak Station displays gold lighting for New Years Eve 2019. The 2018 station is styled after the classic original 1908 New York Central station that stood on this exact spot. Tha... (more)

Just looking for more views. As Norfolk Southern 66X heads from Chicago, IL to Reybold, DE with a load of crude oil on April 14, 2019, the Pennsylvania Railroad signals at Automatic 225 in Tipoton... (more)

On a dark and foggy evening there are no trains coming because the signals say so.

If only a train…
Sometimes—just about everything comes together with a photo—only the subject doesn’t show up. During recent years on a much quieter Rio Grande main line through... (more)

Cascades Train 508 is getting ready to depart north to Seattle (right side train), while another Cascades train set awaits its next assignment at Portland's Union Station.

A Metra commuter train waits for departure at Chicago Union Station on November 11, 2019.