The N&W Class J 611 heads east near Bedford on this cold, rainy day. The engine was being moved for the upcoming weekend excursion.

Northbound mini-bomb 6906 blasts through the snow at the old Farrel Corporation factory in Ansonia.

With a replenished water supply, Nickel Plate 765 storms out of Montgomery, West Virginia.. The fourth coach of 1986 New River Train is rolling past the fire department tanker that provided the fi... (more)

A stunning sunset silhouettes (try saying that three times fast!) the Huntington Locomotive Shops on a beautiful December evening. In the Upper Yard, a long line of EMD motors including several S... (more)

Three SD40-2s - the leader in L&N paint, with the two followers in Family Lines attire - lead a coal train out of Augusta on the former ACL. This looks like a pretty substantial bridge, but it sp... (more)

Rounding the bend at Biwabik, MN along the CN Iron Range Sub, DMIR 403 leads 145 cars of taconite pellets south towards Two Harbors, MN on a cold Sunday afternoon in NE Minnesota.

A Canadian National intermodal train is crossing Prairie Creek trestle just west of Hinton. The train is leaded by CN 8953 and CN 2289.

Dusk on Logan Hill
As another day ends in Powder River Basin at At 8:48 p.m. on June 18, 2015, two BNSF coal trains meet on Logan Hill, Wyoming. The lights and water tank of the town of... (more)

EMD DDA40X No. 6923 leads a westbound freight out of Cheyenne, Wyoming, in April 1984. Trailing the big “Centennial” is a pair of SD40-2s, and a large cut of stock cars behind the power.

One of Conrail's new SD50s has been delivered to the Indiana Harbor Belt's Blue Island Yard and is working its way toward its outbound train. Tom Golden photo.

After their retirement from service with the South Shore in the early 1980s, four 1920s-era Pullman cars were purchased and moved to a railroad themed restaurant called The Chesterton Station. As... (more)

Rarely did the Rio Grande Zephyr cross the Wasatch and the Rocky Mountains with only two F9s for power, but it did happen at times when the consist was light. Train No. 18 from Salt Lake City is l... (more)

The eastbound 1986 New River Train takes a pause at Montgomery, West Virginia. Nickel Plate 765 simmers while the local fire department fills its tank.

NS L05 cruise through Fort Wayne, Indiana on the elevated tracks of the former Nickel Plate Road. This was also part of the Nickel Plate passenger platform.

Early on a humid morning, the usual deep-south haze combines with fog rising from Mobile Bay to obscure distant objects. In the ex-GM&O yard below Telegraph Road, a crew uses an all ex-IC locomot... (more)