An ex-CN passenger car (5608) built in 1954 has found a new life in the heart of Hamilton. The Larry Paikin Literacy Express serves as a library for children and adults just outside of the Eva Rot... (more)

The sun sets on the classic Southern Railway signal bridge at CP Biltmore in Asheville, NC. These signals are disappearing rapidly in the South, so hopefully these signals stick around for a while... (more)

The sun slowly rises on December 24, 2013 shining it's light onto Selkirk as most of the locomotives sit still waiting for their next assignment, all except for the yard power pushing cars over th... (more)

The conductor rides a cut of cars down for a cut.

A friction bearing and cast frame on an old D&RGW ski train car clearly showed its heritage as a Pullman-built coach for the Northern Pacific Ry. in 1915. D&RGW acquired eight of the coaches in ... (more)

Rio Grande’s ski train with newer equipment is only ten miles from Moffat Tunnel as it negotiates the narrow confines of Rollins Canyon near Rollinsville with three of owner Phillip Anschutzâ€... (more)

Originally built in 1961 for the Union Pacific Railroad, this car now runs thousands of miles with the Ringling Brothers Circus each year as a coach. The bearings on these cars were updated a numb... (more)

For the details of this CB&Q/CRI&P wreck see: http://railfan44.blogspot.com/2014/01/major-passenger-train-wreck-montgomery.html

Connection. Seen here on Conrail's Bloodgood Branch is two different sized rails welded together. While it looks like more of crude method compared to compromize joints, it still gets the job done... (more)

I have been coming to Southern Iowa and Northern Missouri since I was a boy to watch Santa Fe/BNSF trains race across the Marceline Sub. In 2013/2014 things changed as they always do with the rail... (more)

Originally constructed in 1928, the now-dormant Wabash Railroad Station on Delmar Blvd. in western St. Louis City awaits an uncertain future. Back in its heyday, outbound Wabash trains from St.... (more)

A former ACL box car basks in the morning sun at the North Florida Railroad Museum

This observation car was built in 1930 for the Reynolds family as the Winette, then became a MoPac business car and a SCL business car. Back into private hands for the Chicago Envelope company as... (more)

This was K080 one day after 19 cars derailed in the Boomer/ Mount Carbon area. No fatalities have been reported, and only damages besides the track is a burnt down home and truck. The cars were st... (more)

At 8:26AM February 2, 2015 would be the start of the Southern signals at Belton to be taken down as the lights went out. Here we see contractors cutting into the signal heads to take them down bef... (more)