About RailMonNA

RailMonNA is a public North American train-sighting map for everyday freight, passenger, heritage, special-interest, and ordinary railroad movements. The goal is simple: help railfans share useful sightings while keeping reporting safe, accountable, and easy to scan.

The site is not limited to heritage or special paint locomotives. A regular manifest, intermodal, coal train, local, passenger move, or work train can be just as useful to nearby observers.

What We Are Building

• A live map of recently reported train movements.
• Reporter accounts with email verification and public usernames.
• Admin moderation tools for edits, removals, and bad-report control.
• Railroad and train-symbol support to make reports easier to enter and search.

Safety First

RailMonNA is for lawful public observation. Do not trespass, enter railroad property, interfere with crews, distract drivers, or use the site in a way that creates risk around active tracks.

Version History

Major public-facing milestones from the RailMonNA beta development period are listed below. Small maintenance and styling fixes are grouped with the nearest release.

Acknowledgments

RailMonNA is made possible by open-source software, public transportation information, independent rail-data projects, and reports contributed by the railfan community.

• Leaflet provides the interactive mapping framework.
• OpenStreetMap contributors provide the base-map data.
• OpenRailwayMap contributors provide the railway infrastructure overlay.
• Amtraker and Dixieland Software support the passenger-train information shown by the site.
• RailroadfanWiki provides reference material used for train-symbol suggestions.
• RailMonNA reporters and railfans contribute the sightings, corrections, and field knowledge that make the community map useful.

RailMonNA is an independent railfan project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by any railroad, passenger carrier, mapping provider, or data-source project listed above.