Paralleling BNSFs Copper City mainline, the Butte Anaconda & Pacific sees similar seldom volume, but has an upgrade for power with two very unique GP9s still operational. Heres one of the two, alo... (more)

A417's conductor guides his power back onto their pickup in Jasper's south yard. CP engines are fairly uncommon in these parts.

Looking like a MAC daddy on display at Fairbanks Railroad Day is SD70MAC # 4328 in a special scheme influenced by Alaska Railroad's first blue and yellow locomotives of the 1950s. This year, 2023... (more)

A Fort Eustis Military Railway train enters the Range Complex on Mulberry Island. The 8 mile Mulberry Island Division makes a loop around the world's first military heliport (Felker Army Airfield)... (more)

Camo Geeps. Both UP 1373 (née-Southern Pacific 3198, EMD, GP40P-2, 11/1974) and UP 1394 (née-SSW 7638, EMD, GP40-2, 1/1979) were sitting in J Yard near East 25th Street on the morning of ... (more)

Trips to the North Pole took on a different look this season, with ex-ESWR #602 specially painted for the trips. This is paint, not a wrap. All three ex-ESWR units now have individual schemes. ... (more)

The deadline at Schellville as 2021 comes to an end. What a sight for 1st generation and SP fans after so many years.

Royal Gorge Route Railroad recently purchased the trio of former B&O EMD SD40-3 locomotives that were owned by Escalante Western Railway and used on coal trains operating from Lee Ranch Mine to Pl... (more)

A lucky find on a siding east of Pueblo, Colorado is this Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad boxcar DRGW 63770. It was built in 1963 and is all the more spectacular that it has survived in the ... (more)

In the consist of the BN-CP Transfer on this hot August evening are Keokuk Junction Railway F9's 1761 and 1750, which are headed to their new owner in Saskatchewan. It's not very often that you s... (more)

Union Pacific DDA40X has long been a parts source for the Dakota Southern Railway. It is rumored to be heading to a rail museum in Nebraska. WATCO's Ringneck & Western is the new operator of the... (more)

Bayview Properties' EMD SW8 1001 sits at Wellcox Yard in Nanaimo along with SRY GP9 108. The developer plans to relocate 1001 to Victoria where it will be utilized for promotional purposes and the... (more)

On August 28th, National Railway Equipment announced a consolidation plan that would close all operations at their Silvis and Dixmoor facilities in Illinois, as well as the facility in Milwaukee, ... (more)

A Pacific Sun GP35 gets some TLC as it sits on the end of the Ventura Foods lead in Ontario next to the LA Sub. This WATCO contracted switching operation uses a couple units including this unit wh... (more)

Pacific Harbor Line MP20B-3 21, originally Boston & Maine GP38 254 (originally Maine Central 254) rebuilt by Motive Power Industries into an MP20B-3, shoves a cut of cars into the PHL’s Pier A Y... (more)