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As the sun appears over the San Bernardino Mountains, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway train Q-NYLA (Quality Network [TOFC/COFC]; East Coast [CR Connection in Ch... (more)

Wrecked Amtrak P42 9 sits outside the shop at Beech Grove.

The times they are a'changin'....after watching & waiting since 2007, ACWR is full steam ahead with their cab units.

SP 9 waits at the Owenyo trainorder office for its last orders. It had been filling in while diesel SP 1 was in the Bakersfield shops, but the diesel is back from the shops and soon will take ove... (more)

CPKC Railway train 113, an intermodal train heading from Hochelaga, Québec, to Coquitlam, British Columbia, is westbound on CPKC’s Laggan Subdivision, paralleling the Bow River. Canadian Pacif... (more)

F3A 4134, F3B 4329, F7B 4402 and F7A 4185 at Southern's Inman yard, Atlanta, GA. To accommodate a 1225 gallon water tank, Southern relocated the air tanks to the roofs of several F3As, including... (more)

Salt Lake Cities North Yards dead line has shuffled around a bit since I last photographed it. It doesn't extend as far north as it once did. It is at least three deep though in places. The dead ... (more)

Norfolk & Western 2-6-6-4 1201 leads 80 cars westward through Roanoke Virginia in 1936. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

UP Grain train, Westbound just before sunset, a lightning show was going on in the storm moving East in the background

Union Pacific's Chicago & North Western heritage unit appears briefly between the trees on the upper part of the historic Williams Loop, located near Spring Garden, California. In a few moments it... (more)

One Month: Just one month after being released from the Wabtec facility in Erie, PA, this AC44C6M was involved in a derailment as the trailing locomotive on NS 96Z in Madison, MO after the train w... (more)

The Oneida & Western "Green Train" passes through Atlanta with four matching SD40-2's built to L&N specs. Photo by Richard Thomason.

CSXT 8066 leads M434 into Selkirk yard.

“Lonely Survivor�
The Western Maryland Railway freight station in York, shown here on April 21, 1984, was built in 1896 for WM precursor Baltimore & Harrisburg Railway Company. The J... (more)

Some rare power gathered up at the US Sugar South Shops, including an ex-SP SD40T-2, ex-SP SD40R, and an MP15T. Since the latest acquisition of USSC 6324, depicted here are the three 6-axle units ... (more)