I don't know if they are outstanding in their field but they are out standing in somebody's field because the crops grow right up to the tracks at the nice new shop facility. We didn't catch the ... (more)

Right pretty in that orange after originally coming in SP gray. Looks like a portrait might be appropriate.

Apparently already retired, one of the three-engine Gensets which didn't work out. The NREs weren't exactly ugly but very few seem to be picked up on the used market. I remember when we all shak... (more)

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)

Off to Chicago, the daily EB freight grinds upgrade toward Homestead after departing the beautiful new yard and shop area. Really wished they had swapped those units.

This ATSF original could be imagined to be looking back across a long career and it waits for work in the morning. Easy duty after the Class I duties.

The daily run has pulled up for a new crew on the south leg of the wye and will soon join NS's former C of G line for the run south to Allbenny (AKA Albany) where C of G used to deliver beautiful ... (more)

Lined up and ready to go on the daily train to Enid this unit was originally GM&O and was last owned by Iowa Interstate. I like that simple paint scheme.

The reddish hues of a late winter day suffuse the scene as this Lyons bound freight rumbles its way westbound in one of the several small town online. I chased this one with a good deal of sadnes... (more)

Semi retired after starting as a Seaboard Air Line GP7 over 70 years ago, this unit has to work maybe three days a week, and appears well taken care of. Other than the frame, I wonder how much of... (more)

Coupled to some beautiful old equipment including a beautifully restored PRR X29 boxcar this unit started its days as CRR 911. Many years and many owners later it labors for this Altoona-area sho... (more)

Western Maryland had no FP7s but Canadian Pacific did and because of that we can see what a Western Maryland FP7 might have looked like, well, minus that round tank and ditch lights etc. In any c... (more)

Uncoupled B-unit is hard to catch. This one has special significance. A former Clinchfield unit, one of the last 4 on that road and something of a celebrity for having been part of the many excu... (more)

Image this string going out on the daily local for real in 2021. This former MILW f-unit is masquerading as a Chesapeake & Ohio unit while its companion is somewhat more authentic (where did they... (more)

Replacing a bunch of coal trains on the former Clinchfield was a few unit trains such as this string of ethanol tankers coiling through the narrow hollers on the way to the south.