At the old N&W yard in the area there is a nice lineup on this date. Photo by Dave Petke.
Last hurrah for the Rio Grande, and it's tunnel motors. I was fortunately enough to get a last chance, of catch four Rio Grande tunnel motors working together on the dirt train in 2002.
A Conrail GP30 and N5C cabin car occupy the Ford Lead in Teterboro, NJ. Both trace their heritage to the Pennsylvania Railroad via Penn Central. The Ford Lead is former Erie/Erie Lackawanna indu... (more)
Amtrak's California Zephyr consist includes cars whose letterboards read Union Pacific, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Burlington, Amtrak, and California Zephyr. SP FP7 No. 6456 and two other... (more)
The terminal at Long Beach from a JFK approach.
Former NS/Southern GP38-2 #5206 eases downgrade across Big Gulch Bridge along what is left of the Tennessee Central mainline, with Lhoist North America's train from Crab Orchard, bound for interch... (more)
AT&SF 2-8-8-2 1797 awaits its next helper assignment on Raton Pass near Morley Colorado in 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
After getting more water in Wishram, WA the BNSF fire train heads west to continue to help fight the Tunnel 5 fire west of Bingen, WA.
On February 9th at 4:45 am, one of BNSFs monster coal trains derailed east of Cairo Nebraska. The three SD70ACes were the mid-train DPUs.
My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)
Looking more like a model railroad scene, a class 2600 electric loco is seen between Porto Sao-Bento and Porto Campanha.
Some old SW9's painted up for the conrail still exist, All through they are now just rusting away.
A cut of former CN SD60Fs sit in storage on the Aberdeen Carolina & Western.
On January 6th, 2024 an MBTA/Keolis work extra moved B&M RDC-2 #6213 and B&M milk car 1930 from Boston Engine terminal to the former shop complex at Iron Horse Park in North Billerica. The Budd RD... (more)
The trailing SD38 throws up a massive cloud of smoke with sanders applied to pull a big cut of cars out.
