Brand new wheel sets from Transcona sit at the ready.

Looking toward the east switch of Minturn siding shows an impediment to any possible train movements over Union Pacific’s railbanked Tennessee Pass route on June 4, 2018. In early March 2014, a ... (more)

Silent Sentinels- Standing tall over the former Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe main line, two aged semaphore signals control the movements of but two trains per day. With the reorganization of... (more)

SEPTA's former Pennsylvania Railroad built station in Strasfford, PA. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, this station sits roughly 15 miles west of center city Philadelph... (more)

Ex-Dinorwic Quarries 0-4-0 Elidir, built in 1889, runs alongside Llanberis Lake on the Llanberis Lake Railway in North Wales

The crew of ex-Dinorwic Quarries 0-4-0T seem to appreciate the fact that there is no cab roof on this little loco in the heat of 29 degrees. The train is seen skirting the shore of the beautiful B... (more)

Ex-Dinorwic Quarries 0-4-0 Elidir, built in 1889, stands waiting for passengers on the Llanberis Lake Railway in North Wales

Before getting started grinding away on the rails of Bridge 14, this Loram Rail Grinding train gave the area a "good soaking".

Railroad: Loram
Locomotive: Unknown
Location: Steilacoom, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: n/a
Train ID: n/a
Photo Date: June 28, 2018

Built in 1881 by Italian stonemasons for the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railway as part of the facilities needed for their division point of Como, Colorado. The original six-stall roundhouse eve... (more)

Once a railroad town…
Salida was once a railroad town, where Rio Grande had a large dual gauge yard, two roundhouses, company hospital and many other functions necessary for a busy div... (more)

Around 1:20 AM Sunday morning, work continues at the busy CSX Intermodal Terminal in Fairburn, GA. On its departure, train Q198 stops outside of the terminal illuminating a cantilever signal brid... (more)

Today, Colorado’s Minturn yard sits empty, rusty and forlorn. No longer do crews cut in helpers for the arduous climb up the steep 3 percent grades of Tennessee Pass. The sand tower is now gone ... (more)

No trains have passed this way recently!
In early March 2014, a 30-foot boulder came crashing down the mountainside above Minturn, Colorado, just west of milepost 301 on this famous Rio... (more)

Nothing has run on Tennessee Pass lately
Proof can be found looking down the main line just west of milepost 301 on this famous Rio Grande route that Union Pacific stopped operating in ... (more)