What used to prowl the yard on a daily basis, is now reduced to the pulldown sets. EJE 656 works the west Kirk pulldowns with a cut of assorted freight cars to sort over the back end of the hump.

Batten Killed It!

After making the 7 hr round trip drive the prior Friday to see nothing I wasn't sure making the trek again in rainy miserable weather was worth it.

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Union Pacific's Proviso Intermodal and Classification Facility can be quite a sight. Looking west, you can see the assortments of EMD power; all the way to the shops. 1989, an SD90/43mac, and an S... (more)

BN 5383 leads the Nebraska Zephyr onto the IRM mainline during diesel days 2019.

A former Southern SD-M sits dormant with an ex DMIR SD-M outside of Union Mills.

PRR 4935 has just arrived at its new home at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania and is in the company of two other "Gs" residing there, the first GG1 built, PRR 4800 "Old Rivets&qu... (more)

This PC Alco assigned "Baltimore" for servicing awaits its fate in the backshop area along with numerous other old locomotives Conrail deemed not fitting into its future plans.

What a cool place. Webster is located a little ways to the west of Sheldon. This is the location of where the Toledo Peoria & Western railroad crosses the former Milwaukee Road line towards Terre ... (more)

All together for the first time! Here's a "family portrait" of all 5 surviving locomotives from Maine's historic, 2-foot, common carrier railroads. Although our event was dubbed ... (more)

A very busy Sheepscot Yard. The crew of Bridgton & Saco River #7 holds one of the shop tracks as the crews of other locomotives switch cars behind them on the main. Our Saturday night phot... (more)

Cold soldiers.... Monson Railroad Locomotive #4 and Bridgton & Saco River Railroad #8 sit on turntable leads in the Sheepscot Yard for the Maine 2-Foot Grand Reunion Event. Both locomotive... (more)

Monson Railroad #3....the Little Engine That Could. Although the beefy B&SR #7 and the elegant WW&F #9 probably garnered the most attention at the 2020 Grand Reunion event, this little engi... (more)

Deseret Power Ry’s afternoon loaded train is at the very summit of the railroad’s high point, Holum Pass. The usual 44 cars are following behind the 3 E-60’s. In a little less than an hour t... (more)

WAMX MP15ACs pull a cut of tanks out of Koppers Chem. in Cicero.