The Rio Grande has the Wasatch Mountains to cross and the top is called Soldier Summit. The base of the grade where it starts is Helper, Utah. Hence the name where helpers are added to trains to m... (more)

A Suffern Turn has dropped a cut of cars and two switchers in Hillburn Yard and is now running light to grab it's pulls. Power is an ex Penn Central GP35, an ex Lehigh Valley GP38AC, and an ex Eri... (more)

Chessie B&O 4130-7225-8401, crossing the Youghiogheny River coming off the FM&P at S Connellsville, Pennsylvania. May 8, 1987. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Here's another forgotten slide of half a dozen Southern cabooses. The railroad was already Norfolk Southern but there's no evidence of the merger here. The number X420 goes along with Sweetwater 4... (more)

Illinois Central’s Markham Local speeds southbound between Peotone and Manteno, Illinois, on a clear January 21, 1989. Leading the train is solid orange Illinois Central Gulf EMD GP10 No. 8186.

This unit was a regular there and today is doing the regular shuffle of cars.

BN 1991 leads a loaded coal train out of the Black Thunder mine. Returning to the main at Reno Junction. (Tom Ellis photo)

Soo Line 6240 (1 of 54 SD39's made by EMD) leads a Lake States train out of Milwaukee, WI in May of 1987. Much has changed since this photo was taken. The Milwaukee skyline has added a building or... (more)

A Conrail GP30 and N5C cabin car occupy the Ford Lead in Teterboro, NJ. Both trace their heritage to the Pennsylvania Railroad via Penn Central. The Ford Lead is former Erie/Erie Lackawanna indu... (more)

"Don't go to Pasco, dude. They're a bunch of nepotistic tire slashers who hate anyone from the Coast"...This was music to my ears as a 24-year-old new hire fresh out of the Corps (Marines, not Pea... (more)

An Erie Western train is about to rejoin their 158 mile former Erie mainline across Indiana after coming off their former PRR branch to Portland, IN. Besides their former Erie main, ERES also oper... (more)

A lash up you would think could only happen on a model railroad. D&RGW SD45's 5328, and 5336, sandwich a big Union Pacific DD35 83. They are going under the over pass at 4th South, running down 4... (more)

Monon 502 leads a Louisville to Chicago freight off the K&IT bridge and onto Vincennes Street in New Albany, Indiana where the train will spend much of the next two miles of its journey navigating... (more)

For over thirty years, before the Reading & Northern came to town, George Hart’s Rail Tours, Inc. provided excursions out of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Here passengers prepare to board a train pu... (more)

A westbound MARC train passes through the settlement of Boyds, Maryland on the former Baltimore & Ohio Metropolitan Subdivision. Both of these locomotives plied these rails as B&O road units in th... (more)