Floating Train

The Alaska Railroad has no physical connection to the rest of the North American rail network. But that doesn't prevent them from having a robust interchange. The ... (more)

CN C44-9W 2566 teams up with BNSF ES44C4s 8355, 7190 and 4256 leading CN detour train F30541 05 across the Pembina River between Entwistle and Evansburg, Alberta. This is BNSF's G AVIKAL9 05 detou... (more)

"Shutting Off the Departure Board at NYP" An Amtrak Electrician flips the switch on the famous Departure Board at New York Pennsylvania Station, turning it off for the last time b... (more)

By the late 1950s the final chapter had been written for mainline steam in North America, with only a few exceptions, lines of dead steam locomotives awaited the scrapper's torch across the countr... (more)

With the upper reaches of Tehachapi's western slope blanketed in a yet undisturbed dusting of snow the labored roar of eastbound tonnage, battling up the mountain, reverberates through the quiet w... (more)

Western competitors wait for the torch out east.

The former Providence & Worcester B40-8W 582 has emerged from its exterior/cab rehabilitation and painting to become PWRZ 4007 in fresh Genesee & Wyoming corporate colors. The unit is seen posed ... (more)

Sunset at Winslow, AZ finds a westbound BNSF intermodal train leaving town for its nocturnal run across the desert to Los Angeles as two eastbound trains approach Winslow for a crew change.

Truly inspiring life experiences like this don't come along too often, but this day was one of those days for me. I had the distinct privilege of meeting a little boy who loved trains so much he w... (more)

A family vacation of good balance. My wife likes to fish, and I like to watch trains. Our oldest boy likes everything, so we spent a nice Saturday afternoon enjoying the Mississippi River around D... (more)

As the morning sun peaks the emerald hills above Allard horseshoe, burning off a marine layer, a southbound Union Pacific intermodal from Brooklyn, Oregon slowly climbs the grade, in and out of th... (more)

Sunset at Fox Lake. Just a minute or two of daylight remains as a local SOO Line Freight runs eastbound across the causeway just south of Fox Lake, Wisconsin. The power this evening is the... (more)

While Railfanning on the C & O main at Richmond, VA, I found this turtle in the middle of the two grades trying to cross over to the other side towards the River. I was watching him for nearly an ... (more)

With the sun just starting to peak over the horizon, IC 2699 leads eastbound stack train Q120, as they pass the turbines on the approach to Amherst, Nova Scotia.

A six-pack of Rio Grande SD40T-2s drift through Helper Yard prior to cutting into a 100 car coal train for the steep climb to Soldier Summit. In the group are DRGW 5390, DRGW 5342, DRGW 5373, DRGW... (more)