Freshly-minted grabirons, still glowing hot after being formed to shape by blacksmith David Ragsdale, rest on a nearby cooling rack inside Union Pacific’s car shop at Desoto, Missouri, on Septem... (more)

Inside Union Pacific’s car shop at De Soto, Missouri, on September 29, 2011, blacksmith David Ragsdale shapes the end of a grabiron moments after removing it out of the electric furnace seen in ... (more)

NS train 27M, zooms past the still standing searchlight signals on the east end of Benton City Siding. TWC ABS territory

The property at Superior was still a tidy place in the autumn of 1967 on the onetime route of the Olympian Hiawatha.

The eastbound Mainstreeter is crossing Clark Fork Bridge at Bonner on this September 1967 portrait of the usual matched set of F9's doing the honors.

The Mainstreeter is captured on the Clark Fork Bridge westbound a few miles from it's Missoula stop.

The NP depot at the lonely outpost of Bonner looks sharp to passing patrons on NP passenger trains.

From onboard Pennsy's train #90, The South Wind, we get a highball from the rear brakeman aboard a NYC freight waiting in the hole. Burr Siding was south of Lebanon on PRR's I&F, and was improved ... (more)

Christmas Time At McAdam The railway station at McAdam, New Brunswick, is lit up for Christmas. It's quite a sight to see. All that was missing was some snow.

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.

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)

An eleven minute exposure finds eastbound doublestacks making track speed downgrade into Minot over 1792' long Gassman Coulee Trestle, among the longest on the former GN. Photo taken from private... (more)

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)

AMT 809 is arriving in Montreal, with a number of cranes visible around the always changing skyline.