ATSF’s Train No. 2, eastbound San Francisco Chief is nearing Dalies, N.M., and instead of turning north to Albuquerque and the Raton Pass line as most passenger trains traversed, it will continu... (more)

The first time presented to the public after 16 years of restoration by the owner: Steam cogwheel locomotive "Caspar Honegger", built in 1877 by Maschinenfabrik Aarau for the factory of Honegger i... (more)

Soo Line 700 crosses the Sucker River before it empties into Lake Superior between Duluth and Two Harbors. This ex-Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway bridge was also in the 1994 movie Iron Wil... (more)

A BNSF Railway coal train headed to Centralia, Washington, skirts Frog Pond, and the Clark Fork River west of Trout Creek, Montana, on Montana Rail Link's 4th Subdivision.

Got a hopper in the dirt? That's no problem if you've also got a big hook. And the Nevada Northern Railway Museum does have a big one....a 100-tonner, as a matter of fact. This unit was b... (more)

Milwaukee Road 8 Duplex Roomette-6 Roomette-4 Double Bedroom sleeper "Jefferson River", Kansas City, MO. It's been decades since the Pullman-built sleeper graced the road's premiere 'Olympian Hiaw... (more)

One of two heavy duty GE center cabs the C&NW tested rests at the South St. Paul engine facility.

The Rio Grande Zephyr train No. 18 meets a westbound mixed freight at Soldier Summit on May 7, 1976.

The restoration work continues on Cotton Belt 819 inside the Arkansas RR Museum in Pine Bluff. I do not know when the restoration work on this beautiful looking locomotive is scheduled to be comp... (more)

Passing through downtown Westminster, MMID 2060 - (ex-MMID 300) the Maryland Midland's Heritage Unit, leads 5 CORP painted units on UBEG's return to Union Bridge after visiting the CSX interchange... (more)

Where SD40s no longer tread. A view taken inside the DW&P's curved 520-ft tunnel in far western Duluth. Blasted out in 1912, this rugged line into Duluth was abandoned in 1984 when the Peg started... (more)

About to make a station stop with the Mt. Bachelor Talgo cab car leading.

On a beautiful September 20, 1991, a LTV Mining (former Erie Mining) taconite train slowly unloads over the dock at Taconite Harbor, Minnesota. The train is pulled by EMD F9A No. 4213, GP38 No. 42... (more)

Flangers! One of two Flanger sets is seen here cutting west towards the loop track at Emigrant Gap. Once there they will turn back for Truckee, and then make a third and final pass through the a... (more)

RP.net's own Tom Farence gets the shot of CN 1501 inspecting the IAIS mainline through the Quad Cities on its way from Council Bluffs, IA to Peoria, IL.