You can buy tickets and wait for your Metra commuter train bound for Chicago, inside the Aurora Transportation Center and at Aurora, Illinois, as seen on November 10, 2017. The ATC is located in ... (more)

The sun has set on AT&O... In more ways than one sadly.

This critter sat at the Deer Lodge engine facility. Looks like a Joe is getting ready over at the next stall, just another day for the laborer.

Rolling by with 10-year old NP 298 pulling general manifest through the NP yard limits, wooden caboose #1367 brings up the markers.

A western diamondback rattlesnake has awakened from a nap while warming itself along a rail of the Copper Basin Railway main line near Tunnel 3 at Riverside, Arizona, on the afternoon of March 18,... (more)

Cedar Rapids has the markers on the Morning Hiawatha as it stops at the Dells, the bulk of the train sitting on the impressive steel bridge over the Wisconsin River. Summer 1967

The 50th Anniversary Santa Claus Special nears the end of its run, with local citizens on the ground waiting for the train staff and Santa to heave gifts off the back platform of the business car ... (more)

This colorful wooden stock car was still in service in September 1967 spotted at the NP terminal yard.

Sentinels of History stand in the face of progress on one of CSX's lines in northwestern Ohio, not far from Toledo.

The slogan on this caboose reads, "Everyone gains where courtesy reigns". Ahead pulling this train, a Gas Turbine electric. To see the head end, search photo #639380 and thanks to Rick Erben for t... (more)

Eastbound through a very scenic part of the Overland Route bringing up the markers the old fashioned way. The slogan on the caboose reads, "Don't be curt, be courteous". To see what's pulling this... (more)

The station at McAdam, New Brunswick festive for Christmas, with the trees along the front, and lights along the roof railing. A few weeks ago was Christmas In McAdam, but unfortunately I couldn't... (more)

A hot intermodal train with UPS trailers wastes no time racing north through Folkston, Georgia. 1/40th pan photo.

A three week assignment at the RI Arsenal meant the godfather had some downtime to capture the flavor of Midwestern railroading surrounding the area. This was taken in the terminal trackage at the... (more)

TriMet Max passing a Portland Police Car on Halloween night