It's likely the end of the line for this string of Budd-built M3s and about 70 other cars just like it, located on adjacent yard tracks. The Coronavirus pandemic cut LIRR ridership by over 80% neg... (more)

Built in May 1978 for Conrail, this 43-year-old EMD GP40-2 continues to wear CSX's ever increasingly rare "Bright Future" YN2 paint scheme as it lays over in the railroad's former C&O ya... (more)

With the cowl units slowly coming to an end at CN it has been nice that the 2423 has been assigned to the 436/437 power pool between Thunder Bay and Fort Frances, Ontario. After arriving in the mi... (more)

Inside the Union Pacific’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility at Kansas City, Missouri, a welder repairs a damaged plow on UP EMD GP38-2 No. 641 on October 21, 2013.

Santa Fe EMD GP60M No. 127 shows off its famous warbonnet-clad profile while resting at the locomotive facility at Corwith Yard in Chicago, Illinois, on the morning of January 26, 1991.

Getting a bath
Late in the day of September 17, 1989, CP Rail EMD SD40 No. 5404 and a Soo Line SD40-2 are run through the wash building at Soo Line’s former Milwaukee Road Bensenville... (more)

A new Amtrak GE P32BWH shows off its new colors at Amtrak’s locomotive facility in Chicago, Illinois, as older EMD F40PH No. 299 stands by in the background on a sunny February 22, 1992.

Union Pacific's "Pink Ribbon" locomotive idles at Carteret, NJ along Conrail's Garden State Secondary. 7400 had arrived earlier on CSX loaded ethanol train K682. Per UP's web site, this locomotiv... (more)

Trains sit parked in Gladstone Yard for the weekend. All of New Jersey Transit's ALP44 locomotives were retired by 2012.

Several locomotives are in Montana Rail Link’s running repair facility at its locomotive shop at Livingston, Montana, on May 7, 2012. Left to right, the EMD locomotives are SD35 No. 702, SD40-2X... (more)

Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern Alco locomotives, RS11 No. 321 and C420 No. 315, sit in front of the railroad’s shop at Iroquois Junction, Illinois, on April 24, 1993.

NYAR 271 idles with 3 sisters on a weekend reprieve from pulling freight on the RS60. The mural on the side of the locomotive recognizes the heroes of 9/11 and memorializes the lives lost in the a... (more)

Milwaukee Road, Soo Line and Helm Leasing locomotives sit alongside the enginehouse at Soo Line’s Bensenville Yard locomotive facility, along Green Street in Bensenville, Illinois, on September ... (more)

Rock and Rail, LLC operates a branch that crosses the Arkansas River from the mainline through Canon City.

A rainbow of power crowds the IC&E terminal.