Nucor Steel mill switchers NREX 3520 and NUCX 2307 are busy working on a Sunday morning.

OKLAHOMA CITY OK (January) 1975 — ATSF F7A 275L gleams in the sun while pausing at Nowers Yard. EMD built the phase II unit in November-December 1953 (b/n 18923) and delivered it in blue with ch... (more)

Susie-Q arrives to Syracuse Armory Square in the rain.

With the track gang just tied up for the day, the line is now clear for E199 to continue its journey to Sylacauga, AL with 49 cars in trail for the Imerys plant. Leading are 4 of G&W's "newis... (more)

While riding a train to Toccoa we lost 3000 mid trip and had to stop to start it back up. I took advantage of the opportunity for a quick photo while Eddie walked back and did his thing.

Great Smoky Mountain Railroad's newest locomotive and first F unit, sits in the Bryson City yard wearing a "Polar Express" banner.

Former RF&P GP35 136 rots beneath the summer sun in downtown Lavonia, Georgia. I'm riding shotgun on EJ&E SD38 654 on a northbound train for Toccoa.

Lowest bid makes strange bedfellows. This former DRGW unit is towing the newly repainted ex-CSX GP16 out to the interchange with NS. Despite looking good in the new paint the "foreigner" is with... (more)

The former Araraquara RR EMD GP18 #7007 standing by in front of Rumo Maintenance Facilities. This is the last one of this model still operating in Brazil.

Kicking off National Train Day 2024 at 0100, southbound iron ore loads wait for a northbound empty as they cross paths at Biwabik under some impressive aurora borealis taking place in the sky abov... (more)

Still on the property

A Union Pacific machinist works on the prime mover of UP GE C40-8W No. 9481 inside the Diesel Shop at the railroad’s Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, on May 4, 2011.

SP 4-8-8-2 4117 leads train 60, the West Coast, through Los Angeles California on July 27th 1937. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Westbound, east of Columbus, OH on the Pittsburgh, Columbus, Indianapolis, St. Louis line, a trio of Pennsy units handle it.

Pick Me up at MOtt Haven. While bringing MTA Metro-North Railroad's third 40th Anniversary "heritage unit" from North White Plains to Croton Harmon on the night of Tuesday Novembe... (more)