NS 183 derailment photo in Logansport, IN just east of 18th Street during July 1988. The derailment occurred due to 183 going into emergency when the head end was crossing the Wabash River over 1 ... (more)

NS 183 derailment photo in Logansport, IN just east of 18th Street during July 1988. The derailment occurred due to 183 going into emergency when the head end was crossing the Wabash River over 1 ... (more)

Suffering through the last months before I got a driver's license, I traveled by train as much as possible. On this particular day I took Amtrak from my home in New Jersey to my uncle's house in D... (more)

Shoving platform CN 79834 is leading as the Pointe St-Charles Switcher heads out of the yard to pick up grain empties at a P&H mill. Above is the right of way for the REM light rail line, which is... (more)

Built new by N&W in 1911, now awaiting an unlikely restoration.

A face only a mother could love. The Central Wisconsin Railroad started with a fleet of ancient ex-MILW FM switchers on the ex-MILW line west of Waukesha. Few of the FM fleet ever turned a revenue... (more)

A snow-covered collection at the former NRE Dixmoor shops, which has since closed up.

A couple MP and UP caboose sit in Seattle under the night sky.

A view from inside a long-abandoned gas station located along the old Lincoln Highway at James Town, west of Green River, Wyoming, reveals an eastbound Union Pacific stack train descending Peru Hi... (more)

Endangered. New York Central Railroad (NYC) S-1 no. 6000 (ALCO/GE, 1904) and T-3a no. 278 (ALCO/GE, 1926) are seen at the Port of Albany, on land where they have been stored for the pas... (more)

An old Grand Trunk Western switcher has found a home in south central Nebraska. It lives out its days on display with some other old rail equipment near US Highway 81 in the small town of Geneva.

"M3s View the NYC Skyline for the Last Time"

Long Island Rail Road Budd M3 railcars 9848 & 9847 are loaded and ready to be secured for their trip to Ohio at Maspeth Yard i... (more)

Resting. Waiting. Fading.

Victim of some long forgotten mishap, found in an old file and fodder for the morbid such as myself, I present a wreck.

OKLAHOMA CITY OK (October) 1975 -- Vandals broke a switch lock, threw the switch and tampered with the switch signal to show the wrong aspect. The result was that Rock Island GP40 384 left the mai... (more)