A westbound loaded CSX coal train approaches the diamonds in Deshler, Ohio, on June 14, 2014. The cross track is CSX’s Toledo to Cincinnati main line. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
Crossroads
Section: Photo of the Day
Through the fog
Norfolk Southern office car special No. 955 creeps through the fog at Delphi, Ind., on the morning of Aug. 3, 2014. Photo by John E. Troxler […]
The next generation
Two kids watch the passing of a Napoleon, Defiance & Western train in Napoleon, Ohio, on Oct. 19, 2014. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
GG1 to the rescue
Amtrak E60CH 966 on the Washington-bound Murray Hill has become disabled just south of Bowie, Md., on March 26, 1976. Sent out to rescue the one-year-old motor is Penn Central GG1 4885 — a 37-year veteran of the Northeast Corridor. Ray Brubacker photo […]
Santa Fe’s Barstow Yard
An early-1904s view of the Santa Fe’s big freight yard at Barstow, Calif., shows, at the left side of the photo, war materiel on flatcars. Santa Fe photo […]
Western corner of the B&O
Consolidation 2836 steams across a country road at Junction, Ill., with the every-other-day freight between Flora and Shawneetown in September 1954. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Classic logging Mallet
The 2-6-6-2T Mallet, exemplified by Weyerhauser No. 9, was perhaps the ultimate development of the logging locomotive. Compact, powerful, and flexible, the type was ideally suited to pulling heavy loads over rough, sharply curved track. Geared locomotives like the Shay also possessed these traits, but could not make the speed of a rod engine. Baldwin […]
Early SP intermodal train
An A-B-A set of F units departs San Francisco with Southern Pacific train 372, the piggyback-heavy Advance Overnight for Los Angeles, in August 1955. William Harry photo […]
La Dolce Vita
A Trenitalia local blasts out of one tunnel, and prepares to pick up waiting tourists at the platform in another, in the Cinque Terre community of Vernazza, Italy, in 2007. Photo by David Lassen […]
Hard charging
Not looking like a Canadian Pacific train, empty frac sand train No. 691 rolls through Bangor toward Oakdale, Wis., with three Union Pacific SD70ACes leading the charge on Jan. 25, 2014. Photo by Matt Krause […]
Jointed rail
An Iowa Pacific excursion makes its way toward Muscoda, Wis., along the jointed rail of Wisconsin & Southern’s Prairie Subdivision on June 21, 2014. Photo by Matt Krause […]
Georgia heritage
Norfolk Southern ES440AC No. 8101, honoring the heritage of the Central of Georgia Railway, leads westbound train 66E through Old Fort, N.C., on Oct. 19, 2012. Photo by Grady McKinley […]
