Fuxin Mining Administration SY 1397 makes a thunderous departure from Wulong Mine with a train of spoil bound for the spoil tip. Soon this train will reverse direction on the track in the foregro... (more)

NS of a different color – A series of business trips to the Middle East in the late 1980’s provided airline layover time in Amsterdam, so I took advantage of the situation and got out to see t... (more)

HOTBOX! One of the spoil wagon axle boxes has caught fire as another empty spoil train pushes out of the yard at Ping'An Coal Mine.

A pair of BNSF ACe's lead an eastbound oil train by the Arcelor Mittal plant in Riverdale.

Spray of the Rhine Falls and the sun produce a rainbow, when a S9 service is en route Schaffhausen – Uster.

One of Konin's electric plants and coal mine private rail network workhorse - EL2-22 is pushing dumpcar set to unloading point of electric plant Pątnów.

Built 1925 as GTW 8325.

TRESPASSING !

Soo Line on the Soo Line: No your eyes do not deceive you, that is the actual grade of the track leading out of the tipple on the North side. By the time you are loading the last car, you a... (more)

218 249 and 212 094 are waiting for the end of unloading of old railroad ballast and used crossties.

The engines seem to always be an array of color and heritage here at the Locomotive Specialist and NREX Storage tracks.

Vindobona Berlin - Wien

The signs of spring start to show as NS 098 leads with a colorful leader and consist by the fairgrounds

Snow storm Jonas was New York City's second biggest snow fall ever recorded. In spite of that, Amtrak kept it's NYC-Albany Empire Service going. Here 713 is slowly pulling west in Sunnyside Yard a... (more)

I have read the tales of Richard Steinheimer in the mountains, chasing elusive trains in unbearable weather. Well, I had some adventure today, even if it was in Queens, New York, where the only ... (more)