SP 8648 East roars up the Valley Line toward Stockton Tower and the crossing of the Santa Fe. The train is a seemingly endless string of boxcars of various types headed back to the Pacific Northwe... (more)
The Southbound "Vermonter" exits the Bellows Falls Tunnel under the Village of Bellows Falls in Rockingham, Vermont. The 278-foot long tunnel was originally consturcted by the Vermont Va... (more)
A Montana Western Railway freight departs Silver Bow, Montana, powered by a quartet of leased Rarus Railway EMD GP9s, still decorated in the same colors when delivered new to predecessor Butte, An... (more)
This area is known as South Draw deep in Tunnel District of Rio Grande's Moffat Road. The natural horseshoe of South Draw is used by the railroad to gain elevation on the climb to the Continental... (more)
Farmrail's junction at Clinton, Oklahoma on May 6, 2019 provides the location for this scene of GNBC power standing on the former Rock Island main running east to west, the former Santa Fe found i... (more)
BN GP30 is at the end of a light power move at Interbay in Seattle, WA while SD45 6415 (X-NP) leads a freight into town having completed a trip west over Stevens Pass.
Southbound BN WP run through "Highline" train on WP Keddie Wye
13 month old BN was still pretty colorful as shown here with an eastbound "hotshot" leaving St. Paul at Dayton's Bluff on trackage shared with Milwaukee Road, Rock Island and Chicago & N... (more)
Springtime thunderstorms gather over Tennessee Pass as a westbound Rio Grande freight descends the steep three-percent grade through the town of Red Cliff, Colorado, on the afternoon of May 24, 19... (more)
The Marietta local returns to the High Yard in Parkersburg, crossing the bridge over the Ohio River that comes into town. Today's short train has a solo GP38-2 running long hood forward and 2 carb... (more)
Illinois Central transfer at 21st St.
A westbound train on the Siskiyou Line splits the Style B semaphores at the east switch of Safley siding.
SP freight passing the Rio Grande River
Getting a load out of Claremont Paper. As the cars got heavier and the engines more tired, it was sometimes necessary to use two locomotives to get up this grade and around this tight curve. It co... (more)
A rebuilt Rock Island GP-7 leads seven Southern SD-24 units detouring west on the former Wabash.