Classics NS 9549, a beat-up Dash 9, awaits rebuild at Juniata. In the background, an SD45-2 is awaiting accident repairs, and 8688, the Juniata fuel tender, sits with a wrecked Dash 9.

On Cinco de Mayo, Union Pacific railroad local LOW10-06, with UP GP40-2 1442 (ex-SSW 7279), GP60 1150 (ex-UP 1903, ex-UP 5703, née-SP 9600), GP40P-2 1373 (ex-SP 7601, née-SP 3198) and SD7... (more)

Mother's Day Yard Job | A lone SD40-2 sorts cars at Norfolk Southern's Avondale Yard in Kansas City, MO on the mostly sunny morning of May 12, 2024.

With the next loaded train spotted at the Alicia dumper, the N&W heritage unit sits quiet awaiting for empties to return to the mine for another load.

A former GO Transit F59, now a cab control unit, is on the end of the storage line of equipment for the Piedmont service at Raleigh.

The Caboose Backs In | Freshly-restored Frisco caboose number 1291 eases into position at the Van Buren, AR depot on a cloudy Saturday, April 27, 2024. The pair of Alco C420s powering the t... (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)

Today's Star of the Show: The Genesse and Wyoming Railroad was established in 1899 and has since grown to the empire it is today. Today marked the 125th Anniversary, in which they got all the top ... (more)

After setting off a string of empty hoppers, the engineer eases yellow nose 394 (with some funky number boards) from the siding and onto the main at MP 7 of the S&C branchline as the conductor wai... (more)

Ex-Pennsylvania Railroad.

Victory lap. For both the Empress and the photographer. In 2011, my last visit to see her in action was met with "diesel substitute" as she went down with repair. She was repaired, tes... (more)

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)

Like the Old Days In recent years, the GP40MCs, MBTA's oldest locomotives, have been assigned to North Side trains almost exclusively. In the summer of 2024 however, GP40MC-3s rebuilt in-h... (more)

Aberdeen & Rockfish train AF6 crossing Rockfish Creek

CSXT 911 basks in the afternoon sun.