DENVER CO Oct 4 1983 — Burlington Northern SD9 6144 awaits its retirement at a crowded engine facility near city center. EMD built the 6144 (s/n 19001) in March 1954 for the Burlington as CBQ 34... (more)

The two sections of the forest system at Covasna-Comandau were separated by an inclined plane first opened in 1886. The plane was entirely worked by gravity, the heavier loaded wagons pulled up th... (more)

My wife called and said she'd seen a special train so the chase was on. Carrying export locomotives with trucks on heavy duty flatcars this high and wide was probably destined for Norfolk. As ye... (more)

Cresson Steel NS 8717 is one of five former-NS C40-8s stored in Cresson, PA. Though they've been parked at a scrap metal facility for the better part of a decade, they're still standing.

ARGENTINE KS May 2 1982 — Santa Fe slug 129 was built by EMD (s/n 25408) in July 1959 for Union Pacific as SD24B 420B. UP retired the unit in April 1978 and sold it in August 1978 to Naporano Ir... (more)

After wintering on an industrial siding in Kolbe, Illinois, the BUGX F7's are on the move again, being handed off by the KJRY to the Tazewell & Peoria railroad. A TZPR SW10 shoves the 2 units tow... (more)

ATSF 2-10-4s 5034 and 5030 lead a 62 car freight, east of Belen New Mexico, in 1946. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

YN2 EMD CSXT 8863 is one of the last remaining EMD locomotives painted in CSX's "YN2" paint scheme. It remains stored here in Cumberland, MD along with a "YN1" SD40 (no... (more)

Radnor Yd roundhouse at Nashville , Tn

BN RCU 108 is seen at Harrison St. roundhouse, Minneapolis along with a former GN transfer caboose rebuilt from a Baldwin switcher. This remote control unit was converted from BN F7B 661 (x-GN 448... (more)

Exactly one week after being released from the paint shop at West Cressona, Reading & Northern 40th anniversary unit no. 1983 leads the railroads premier freight train into the Lehigh Gorge at Gle... (more)

SD38 6927 and MT6 slug 1127 work the hump at Selkirk.

The inherited PAR 1 & 2 rest outside the shops on a "taken with permission" stop. They have since been moved from this location and are possibly being fitted for future use on CSXT, but... (more)

UP 1943 leads a high-wide special movement over Sherman Hill on UP's Laramie Subdivision as it approaches the Hermosa Tunnels. The high-wide movement is a NASA rocket booster for the Artemis II ro... (more)

After a steady downpour the last drops are noisily landing here and there and the rising fog portends a bright day in the deep hollers along the Kentucky line. The shadows are long nevertheless, ... (more)