What can happen when a freight train splits a switch. Workers can be seen carrying cartons of Schlitz Beer from a damaged box car. Many a bottle of brew from Milwaukee was snatched by members of ... (more)

Upper station Drachenfels (289m asl): Cogwheel train (Drachenfelsbahn, narrow gauge 1000mm) arrives from Königswinter on a sunny afternoon

The ex-Clinchfield's famed Copper Creek Viaduct provides a rippled reflection in Clinch River as the pushers on eastbound coal drag 722 approach the ex-Southern's much less impressive crossing of ... (more)

New Year's Eve at Rockville with an eastbound Conrail freight, pre-drone days. You can see the original 1849 bridge alignment above the 2nd batch of tank cars.

A CSX empty hopper trains follows the twists and turns of the New River as it approaches Quinnimont. View is from Grandview State Park.

A short freight crosses the Potomac at Harpers Ferry. The town itself is nestled on the steep hill sides between the Potomac (foreground) and the Shenandoah River (left background). The view is fr... (more)

The light of the setting sun glints off the side of a westbound BNSF hotshot as it drops down into Woodward, OK, The train is likely headed to the West Coast, and is not far behind another train. ... (more)

A very unusual Art Deco style of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway logo appears on the Prince, WV station.

It is an August evening in 1946. DSS&A Train No. 2 has arrived in St. Ignace. It is about to board the rail ferry CHIEF WAWATAM and be taken across the Straits of Mackinac to Mackinaw City where ... (more)

Since this year SNCF has new freight cars for transportation of sheet metal coils.

As vehicle and truck traffic pass going east and west on I-10, an eastbound UP stack train makes its way toward Tucson and a crew change. In the distance is the silhouette of the Picacho Mountains... (more)

The San Francisco Peaks are in the distance. A Roger Puta Photograph

Nice golden brown color on the Tehachapi mountains now as a BNSF double stack ascends the grade near Allard. The end of the train and it's DPU locomotives can be seen down the hill from this vanta... (more)

Waiting for boarding in the Orient Express dining car number 4216, built in 1940 by "Ateliers de Construction Métallique Nivelles SA", Belgique (Belgium). It is a former restaurant car of "CIWLT"... (more)

Welcome to a lunch in the Orient Express dining car number 4216, a former restaurant car of "CIWLT", now owned and operated by the heritage railway Chemin de Fer de la Vendée.