As it should be, a southbound coal train rolls past the headquarters best little big railroad in America. Some things should aways stay the same.

By this time, with all of the new power on Erie Lackawanna, a pure A-A set was a lucky catch. Especially with an old F3 in the lead! Near a seldom seen stretch called the "single iron" by the rail... (more)

In Eritrea, a few Russian Ural 375-D trucks that have been built in the Soviet Union in the 60’s and 70’s have been converted to run on rail wheels. They have been used in the Eritrean railway... (more)

FP-45 #103 and 3 "Kodachrome" units bring a hotshot "Q" train (they used to call them "Quality trains" -- pigs only) symboled EPKC -- moving from El Paso to Kansas City via Raton Pass and La Junt... (more)

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal empty traverses scenic Wendover Canyon, Wyoming, on the afternoon of May 25, 1997. It still looks like Burlington Northern, with five Cascade green motors on th... (more)

Two Faibanks-Morse/Canadian Locomotive Works locomotives arrive on their home turf. CP's H16-44's and CPA16-4's were the mainstay in the south west along the Kootenay and Kettle Valley Division... (more)

Pictured in its last winter season as a Great Lakes (via NYC north of Cincinnati) to Miami (via Seaboard Air Line south of Jacksonville) coach-Pullman train, Southern's northbound "Florida Sunbeam... (more)

It was a more innocent time… when a summertime swim in the Coal River might mean jumping off the railroad bridge at Sproul, and that’s what the photographer found when he visited there on June... (more)

East bound out of Mechanicville, NY, is following the Deerfield River, east of the Hoosac Tunnel enroute to East Deerfield Yard and Boston. Photographer Ken Patton shows us a different look from ... (more)

Pushing east up the Berkshires. One geep still has it's original 1950's maroon and gold paint, albeit the maroon has pretty much faded away leaving mostly dulux gold.

A westbound Union Pacific coal train slows to enter the passing siding at Reed to meet a passenger special coming east from Milford, Utah.

Photographer ken Patton taking photo of B&M local freight E-3 returning from North Adams on a misty mountain day in August. The clean looking switcher would soon get the B&M blue paint job and nev... (more)

Acquired in trade - Probably an R. J. Robl photo.