Covering nearly every inch of the rail but the rail head, grease has accumulated on about a 15 foot section of rail at the lubricator pumps. The grease is used to protect the wheel and rail from ... (more)

Watching and control,my son Matias taking his first steps as a fireman assistant, something that the writer did 30 years ago.

It takes some dexterity and flexibility to install a new water pump inside Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6227 inside the locomotive shop South Morrill, Nebraska, on September 15, 2017. Due of the ... (more)

D&RGW train 18, The California Zephyr, is seen at Dotsero Colorado in 1952. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

The Northern Pacific Railway continued to use FT's long after other railroads had traded theirs for 2nd-generation diesel locomotives. The Tacoma Division was the home of the remaining FTs in t... (more)

AREZ 5931 in fresh paint, south of Corvallis.

Bandits
After a bankruptcy and long wait for a savior through merger, Milwaukee Road’s physical plant was not the best. This included the weathered paint on its locomotives. New owner ... (more)

National Locomotive's rebuilt former Norfolk & Western RS36 #1800 sits at the shops that NALCO shared with the Morristown & Erie Railroad. This was to be the first in a group of RS11 and RS36 rebu... (more)

Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 whistles as it meets an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe double-stack train at Casa Blanca, four miles west of the Riverside Amtrak/Metrolink station. The steam engine i... (more)

Passing two horses and a resting longhorn on its way to switching customers on the Fifth Subdivision, Montana Rail Link’s 844 local clatters through Three Forks, Montana, on October 11, 2023. Lo... (more)

Above average temperatures and elevated humidity lay along the Levisa Fork as Shelby-bound CSX M653 approaches GC Cabin on CSX's ex-Chesapeake & Ohio Big Sandy Subdivision.

A modest five car train is dwarfed by the Joso Bridge over the Snake River, Union Pacific's largest, in southeast Washington. It's been a dry summer and the sun is slightly muted by the smoke from... (more)

As a BNSF coal empty cruises over Logan Hill, another BNSF coal load heads downgrade toward Bill with a pair of DPU locomotives on the rear. The top of Logan hill is near, if not at, the road over... (more)

Monon Shops, Lafayette, IN, 08/02/59. Original Kodachrome slide, photographer unknown, John E. Troxler collection.