A veteran EMD unit still in service in northern North Dakota.

On a rare visit to the Kansas City area, a quartet of GM&O SD-40s have uncoupled from their train, likely #91, and are headed back to the engine house. The SD-40s were purchased by the GM&O to ha... (more)

These were around for a while looking good and sounding almost as good as the ones with the real 20-cylinder 645s under the hood. I keep waiting for somebody to do an SD30. After all, parts is ju... (more)

Having just departed Minot on the third leg of the CPKC Final Spike Steam Tour about fifteen minutes earlier, CP 2816, 1401, and 4107 roll eastbound through the small hamlet of Logan, North Dakota... (more)

The Conrail caboose track at E'port yard.

The CN&W use their Oelwein Shops til May 31, 1994. The line from Oelwein from Marshalltown was severed in 1987-88 due to the construction of the highway thru Waterloo. The CNW then used the IANR t... (more)

The CSX F-Unit leading the MARC-RRE Special from Washington, DC to Frostburg, MD is at the end of the line at the turntable in Frostburg.

By the summer of 1978 NJDOT's inherited fleet of ex Penn Central E8s an E7s were really worn out and unreliable. Seeing a freight engine on a Conrail passenger train was never a surprise, although... (more)

Seven GE diesels lead eastbound train H-WATBAR1-22A through Fullerton as it heads from Watson, near the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, to Barstow, in the Mojave Desert. BNSF ES44C4 8061, ES... (more)

CPKC 40B races east through Maple Springs and past a crowd of 40-50 people during the St. Paul to Portage leg of the Final Spike Tour.

The diesel passenger run poses briefly with the Chinese 2-8-2, which is slowly coming around, a process we got to witness firsthand in the cab. The "awakening" of a steamer is one of my... (more)

In the year 2014 the Sequatchie Valley Railroad was still living up the reputation of the shortline that you never know what might be on the roster. A fine example of that is this hidden gem in pl... (more)

Preserved in Pueblo. Colorado & Wyoming Railway GP7 no. 103 is seen amongst a variety of other preserved equipment at the Pueblo Railway Museum in Pueblo, CO.

The Lackawanna heritage unit was just re-released from the Juniata shops in Altoona, PA a few days ago after an overhaul and a fresh coat of paint. In Ohio it was placed on train NS 18M and it’s... (more)

Almost three hours late due to a problem with the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge, Amtrak train 233 passes the Ossining station, with former NYC observation car Hickory Creek on the rear.