It's a busy morning on the Boston & Maine at Ayer, MA. From right to left are train MERU (Mechanicville, NY, to Rumford, ME, B&M/MEC runthrough) behind second generation power, train EDCO (East De... (more)

30th Street Encounter – 1

I frequently visited my railfan cousins in central Maryland during my college years in the late 1970’s. Usually I would borrow my parents’ second ca... (more)

Street Running - Alaska Style

This is as close as you can get to street running in Alaska as a yard engine trundles back south beside 1st Ave after spotting three cars at a custome... (more)

Factory fresh 'Conrail Quality' GE C40-8W units have been assigned to a Union Pacific's Wattis Plateau, Utah to Long Beach, California export coal train at Provo Yard on January 25, 1995. The trio... (more)

And they're off! Union Pacific's Yermo, California to North Platte, Nebraska manifest freight waits patiently in North Yard while an Oakland, California to Chicago, Illinois (American President Li... (more)

Union Pacific's ZCIG1-27 rolls into Salt Lake City for a crew change on Dec. 28, 2016. On December the 25th, Salt Lake City received 8.1" of new snow making it the snowiest Christmas Day in 1... (more)

UP GP60 No. 1100 and GP40-2 No. 1379 await a nocturnal call on the Pioneer Local out of North Yard in Salt Lake City on Dec. 28, 2016.

UP's IAVLB rolls west along the Sunset Route with a varied consist of power, passing the various artifacts in the railroad park at Flatonia.

Empties meet loads on the coal line north of Douglas in June of 1998. Luck was with me as both trains were moving.

Before the Powder River coal line became the multi-track monster it is today, it was an incredibly busy piece of RR with portions of single track. Nothing say vintage coal line to me like this 5 u... (more)

Burlington Northern train No. 4, with a lot of K-Line container traffic up front, passes Hill Yard where BN’s commuter trains lay over at Aurora, Illinois, on April 15, 1989.

After spending nearly two years in storage at Macaulay, a six car Hitachi set runs into Southern Cross station to reverse direction, before heading to Newport Workshops for eventual sale or scrapp... (more)

The crew of an eastbound grain train gives a roll-by to a westbound manifest on the west side of Spokane, Wash.

A train with U50 51 and three SD24B's are leaving North Platte's departure yard under stormy skies. On one of the adjacent tracks, a train is headed by what appears to be a U50C.

WCAM-3 type AC/DC locomotives were specially manufactured to cater the 1500 DC as well as 25000 V AC overhead supply. Mumbai and nearby regions have 1500 V DC overhead wiring whereas rest of Indi... (more)