Lighting Stripes, Big City. On the evening of Tuesday, February 20, 2024, MTA Metro-North Railroad Train 855 was flying up the Park Avenue viaduct as it approached the Harlem-125 Street Sta... (more)

Five GP's are in charge of a manifest in the Price River Canyon. GP40-2's, a GP40, and GP35 brings up the rear. D&RGW 3120, 3095, 3089, 3119, 3047 at Kyune, Utah.

The Belt Job, under the control of MNNR 76, heads into the yard in Saint Paul on the opposite end of its duties. This new acquisition for the Minnesota Commercial has number 76, whereas it retaine... (more)

One of Missouri Pacific's most bizarre purchases was the acquisition of four A-B-A sets of Baldwin DR-4-4-1500 in the Babyface style carbody in late 1948. The units would not m-u with other powe... (more)

Lehigh Valley Alco PA-1 604 leads the New York City to Coxton, PA the daily passenger train "The John Wilkes" at Bethlehem, PA on July 05, 1950. The John Wilkes lasted until Februar... (more)

The yard at the GM assembly plant looks like geometric artwork while NS 1651 and her sister unit idle away the morning at the yard office.

An unfortunate yet spectacular scene along the Lehigh River this morning. NS 9891 is the other unit. At the moment the cause of the incident is still unknown. I had the morning to myself at the ho... (more)

M583 rolls through Tantallon Cut at the bottom of Cumberland Mountain on a dreary Fall morning.

Grounded! These units were embargoed while everybody decided the safety modifications needed to make them compliant with local regulations. Not carried on the Railpower catalog, the "DF&quo... (more)

Western Maryland, WM, BL2 82, on the West Virginia Central at Elkins, West Virginia. April 21, 2004. Jack D Kuiphoff photo ©

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1793 is seen on the west side of Raton Pass, near Lynn New Mexico, during WWII in 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

In January, the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad announced the acquisition of the Georges Creek Railway, a 12-mile line spanning from Borden Shaft, MD to Westernport, MD for freight and passenger ... (more)

Beech Mountain RR leased SW1500 ex CSX 1118 runs light over the lower submarine bridge returning to the loadout for its final cut of cars.

An eastbound manifest has stalled on the 1% grade of Kirkwood Hill and a pair of switchers from the Ewing Avenue Yard in St. Louis has been called in to help the train up the hill.

Between Houses. The local Y102 only works this area, colloquially called the NIT for "New Industrial Track," a couple of times a week. The times are not predictable, but tend to ... (more)