Tom Golden photo.

Under unusually cloudy skies for southern California in June*, Metrolink train 683, heading from Irvine to Los Angeles, passes the old citrus packing houses along the carrier’s Orange Sub behind... (more)

A Hot Bear. Western Maryland Scenic Railroad F40M-2F 450 (née Amtrak 380 F40PH, 7/1981) was returning to the WMSR facility in Ridgeley, West Virginia when it crossed the North Branch Potom... (more)

The leaves have budded just in time to greet a consecutively numbered pair of CMQ blue barns that have returned to they’re former stomping grounds. With a big wave from the hogger who seems happ... (more)

A Blue Visitor. On the morning of Friday, June 18, 2021 AMTK 100 (P42DC, Midnight Blue) was on display at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland along with BO 51 (EA, EMC, 5/1937). ... (more)

It may not be Utah or California, but the trains running through downtown Chicago travel through their own urban canyons on their way to/from their respective stations. Here, Metra no. 173 sh... (more)

Amtrak Charger no. 300 rolls into Chicago, trailing on the eastbound California Zephyr. There were plenty of clouds in the area, and the train itself was running about four hours late by this poi... (more)

With a newly painted Amtrak unit to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Amtrak, the Northeast Regional has just departed Roanoke and is seen here in Webster, Va.

This was the annual CSXT Charity Train, a dinner excursion that ran to benefit the YMCA of Waycross at the behest of CEO Michael Ward. The run typically occurred in April, May or June on a Saturd... (more)

Train 851 passing thru the Spuyten Duyvil Station platform with the next stop being Tarrytown. Harlem River to the right with 2400 Johnson Avenue owners coops is above to the left. Columbia Unive... (more)

The California Zephyr emerges from Tunnel 29 after having just passed through Pinecliffe, Colorado.

On its inaugural run in the lead, Amtrak's new Phase I heritage unit departs the Dells with the Westbound Builder.

On the morning of March 27, 2009, Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr curves toward Crescent, Colorado, on a snowy Union Pacific Moffat Tunnel Subdivision.

VIA 64 is seen passing CN 321, with the congested Turcot interchange in the background. The latter has steel beams in gondolas, a common commodity on this train.

NJT 4120 rolls into the Booton Line platform in Denville past the Denville interlocking tower, which once controlled the junction between the Montclair-Boonton and Morris & Essex lines.