A couple of weeks ago, I was called to work on a Whittier freight train. We went to Whittier with some freight for the barge, did a little...

Steven sent me this photo of a Union Pacific stack train traveling through one of the Salt Lake City, UT, suburbs several months ago, a...

This week our (not so) weekly photo comes from Anchorage, AK. This is the Alaska Railroad depot, in Anchorage, still with a layer of snow ...

This week I got several emails from Steven, containing a description of the construction at Utah Transit Authority's new North Temple st...

A couple of weeks ago, Eastern Montana received their first snowfall.  It amounted to just a couple of inches, but it was just enough to b...

I apologize for my complete lack of new blog posts lately.  Needless to say, engineer training has been keeping me quite busy! Today, I ...

This week, I finally visited something I have heard about for months.  East of Fairview, MT, just over the border in North Dakota, there i...

If you follow the railroad industry news at all, chances are you heard about a major derailment last weekend, in a place called Plevna, MT...

This week we feature Union Station, in Kansas City.  Union Station was built in 1914, in the heart of Kansas City, by twelve railroads tha...

If you follow our Facebook page, you may have seen this one already, but I thought it would share it on here too.  Actually, it came out b...

Today's photo of the week goes back to my trip in July.  I have a whole lot of photos from that trip that I haven't shared, but do...

Today I'm sharing another photo from my pre-digital days. About three years ago, James and our sister were going to college in Utah, ...

Last spring, you may remember that the entire Midwest seemed to be flooded.  While the Forsyth Sub and the Glendive area did experience so...

Usually, I share photos I've taken with my digital cameras, because they are on my computer and easy to share. Recently, however, I...

A while ago, I mentioned that I rarely see trains on the Hillsboro Branch, out of Nashua, and I would love to railfan the line sometime. ...

Today I am sharing one of James's photos from Alaska. He had the opportunity to work there for two summers, driving tour busses out o...

Today we have another reader-submitted photo, from the California State Railroad Museum. I saw this museum from the train one morning on my...

Today I thought I'd share a photo from James's neck of the woods. When I was out there in July, James at one point had been assig...

As you probably noticed, James and I were both away on vacation during the first part of February. Once I returned, I was quite busy for ...

Well, it would seem that Steven has been quite busy since he returned from vacation, and we did not get any photo submissions this week, s...