Jay Boggs washes his motor car down after Amtrak's National Train Day event.

What better way to travel on the tracks of 'The Estate' than in a 1913 BSA-bodied inspection trolley?

So you went railfanning and saw a geep. Big deal, you didn't see a Jeep. This 0-4-0 is so reflective of Army versatility and practicality and the WWII barracks reflect an earlier time. Ft. Chaf... (more)

White Mountain Central Railroad's vintage REO Speedwagon rail bus rounds a curve as if heads back to Clark's Trading Post during the annual Railroad Weekend.

In the early 1940s, General Electric built some small diesel locomotives as part of the war effort. Among the models offered was the 50-Ton, which were all constructed for the US Navy and feature... (more)

8098 isn't the only Norfolk Southern locomotive painted in Conrail paint! Nicknamed "The Bug" by Enola Yard's crews, this homebuilt locomotive shuttle was constructed by Conrail to move po... (more)

An interesting container load with some wheel sets ride on the second level of cans.

On the Romanian forestry railways it was very common to convert road vehicle into rail vehicles. This one seen in the Viseu de Sus yard is based on a Bucegi type truck built in Romania by Roman in... (more)

A standard design scale test car owned by the State of Minnesota makes even a short 24' ore car look huge. The Missabe converted this car to scale monitoring duty.

With a mode of conveyance seemingly quaint in contemporary railroading, a Rio Grande track patrolman awaits train 664's passage before proceeding on the Tintic Branch to Springville. D&RGW's trust... (more)

September 2013 marks the 50th Anniversary of operations at Lamberts Point Pier 6 in Norfolk, VA. To mark the occasion, NS applied a special paint scheme to coal hopper number 146313. The car was... (more)

A very interesting little tourist train: 'Tren Turistico Arenal'. 600mm gauge, length 3.6 km with tunnels and a loop. This train with the loc Diema stands in the valley station 'La Pequeña Helvec... (more)

The tourist line between Tournon and Lamastre is reopened. On a part of the line, there is a rail-bike with a length of 12 km (7.2 mi).

This type is not legal to operate on the road so if you have an old jeep laying around you might want to try this. It worked pretty well.

Sitting under a night sky at Whittaker, a homemade creation; the Meadow River Lumber Company Skidder. Built in 1944, this skidder was used to pull logs up the mountain until 1966.

Western Pacific derrick 79 finds itself in Union Pacific's North Yard in Salt Lake City on Feb. 29, 1984. Any information regarding the builder of the WPMW 79 and its disposition would be highly a... (more)

I finally decided to go see CSX's Sand Patch and when I see this coming I know it is going to be a slow day. A Shuttlewagon pushing two flatcars with lights and a cherry picker on them for tunnel ... (more)

In April 2005, a large 745-ton Belleli vessel was shipped from Houston, Texas, to Denver, Colorado, using the “world’s largest railroad car,� Schnabel CEBX No. 800. The vessel was loaded at ... (more)

Soo 2719 backs its train into Duluth Union Depot after a successful run to Two Harbors and back. Given drought conditions in the Duluth area a hi-rail fire patrol followed the train and has stoppe... (more)

Steam railcar CZm 1/2 # 31 of SBB Historic is being turned on the turntable in Winterthur. The building in the background is the old locomotive shed of the Nordostbahn (NOB) from 1876, nowadays us... (more)

Sperry Rail Service detector car 137 takes a break from rail testing along Southern Pacific's Provo Subdivision mainline in the Salt Lake Valley. The car was built by St. Louis Car for the Soo Lin... (more)

The Republic Locomotive Works yard switcher waits for the next Norfolk Southern train to bring another load of coal to Belews Creek Steam Station. The station burns two 105 train loads per day and... (more)

Clean and not tagged with graffiti, around 1982 on the westward siding adjacent the N&W yard.

PRR #4666, a JG Brill OEG 350 Diesel-electric Doodlebug sits patiently at the Black River and Western awaiting her return to glory. The unit once ran at the New Hope and Ivyland in the early 70's... (more)

Test run of the Rotrac E4 road/rail shunter for the planned RailCare container train from Oensingen to Elgg. This remote controlled powerful electric vehicle for shunting of up to 500 tons is driv... (more)

The Oregon Rail Heritage Center has a vintage Trackmobile rail car mover on display in Portland.

Strasburg Rail Road #2! Rarely scene outside, makes an appearance on August 2nd in the yard likely freeing up some space inside the shops. Built in 1930 and purchased by Strasburg in 1984, the e... (more)

This small 4-wheel Plymouth gas-mechanical was used by the City of Detroit to switch coal cars at the Misterky Power Plant. Today the locomotive switches cars in Greenfield Village. It has a Cl... (more)

A Boeing 737-800 series fuselage travels at low altitude through Denver Colorado. This plane - s/n 3742 - is now flying with Delta Airlines.

The Petit train d'Artouste is a narrow gauge (500mm, 19 3⁄4 in) tourist railway situated in the French Pyrenees. The line is 10 km (6.2 mi) long at an altitude of about 2000 m (6,561 ft). Th... (more)

Members of the Railroad Heritage Alliance get their motorcars ready for a day of fun on the rails at the Craggy Mountain Line, a new shortline railroad, next to the railroad's recently acquired Al... (more)

The morning turn is crossing First Street in Shelton, interrupting a section crew who are busy replacing a guard rail on the wye track. Nice old speeder!

One of Transnet Freight Rail's "new" Luxrailer Inspection Trolleys, K9525020 (3 litre petrol engine), passing through Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands.

A completely rehabbed truck awaits duty.

Steam wrecker rainbow
A rainbow forms in the dry desert air as a member of the wrecker crew blows down the boiler of Nevada Northern Wrecking Crane A at Lavon siding on the Adverse Bran... (more)

This catenary maintenance and inspection vehicle has just finished working on the Morgan Drawbridge and is clearing the way for the next scheduled train. The storm surge from Hurricane Sandy inun... (more)

The BNSF Jordan Spreader has sat in the Denver Yard for years, hopeful that the call to duty will eventually come.

Kershaw Ballast Regulator is sweeping ballast on some newly dropped ballast on the Norfolk Southern Lurgan line. MOW keeps them moving

Strasburg's motor car No. 10 scampers along at Esbenshade Road, heading back to Strasburg with a late afternoon run. Assembled from a wooden passenger coach in 1915, it operated for two years as ... (more)

A Brookville critter awaits its next work at Mine #2 of Pocahontas Coal near Vansant, VA.

The regular assigned switch power at the base of the Comandau Incline pulls a load of dimensional lumber off the incline. Note "engine shed" in background! The cable hauled incline connected two ... (more)

Hand braking and link and pin coupling at the turn of the 21st century. The brakeman rides between the massive fir logs. A US safety inspector may faint at this sight.

Union Pacific Shuttlewagon Mobile Railcar Mover No. CM-9601 switches some empty flatcars at the Laramie, Wyoming, welded rail plant on March 25, 2008. This particular model is a SWX430 with a 40,0... (more)

Strasburg Rail Road's #1 - it's first ever internal combustion engine. Built in 1923 and still, to this day, in service with the railroad since 1926. The 18 tonner features a gasoline engine bui... (more)

Yet another new addition to the RP collection - an engine in my "neighborhood" that I've only recently discovered: LUKENS Steel Company #10.

This little critter, let's call it the "Coatesville... (more)

Dusk meeting at Alna Center. The Road Foreman's Model T track inspection car holds the siding at Alna Center as a southbound mixed freight makes a brief station stop en route to Wiscasset, ... (more)

SRS 128 is heading eastbound testing the rail out to Montauk.

Now that's what I call a Tank Car

Herzog MOW work train cruises through Miller City passing one of the last Nickel Plate bracket mast after receiving a track warrant issued between Miller City and Continental, Ohio.

VIA F40PH No. 6445 was decked out in a special scheme for the Coors Light Silver Bullet Express—simulated side pipes and all—at Jasper, Alberta, on July 18, 2011.

This rare Union Pacific 120-ton steam derrick is preserved at the Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden, Utah. No. 903037 was built by the Industrial Works as UP derrick 02781, and donated to the m... (more)

Rotary 101. Here's a rear-quarter view of Nevada Northern's 1907-vintage Rotary Snow Plow B. It's a slightly different look at this classic piece of MOW equipment than you typically see, a... (more)

PRR Clearance Car! Pennsylvania Railroad clearance car 497125 and a Reading caboose in the Geigertown Central yard. Does anybody know if this is the only PRR clearance car to still... (more)

Pennsylvania Railroad Class B1 0-C-0

This engine (1 of 42 class B units) was built by the company's Altoona Works division in 1934 specifically for switching. Unlike most electric switchers w... (more)

As a spring storm brews to the west, Rio Grande Southern Galloping Goose No. 5 is meeting the regular Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad passenger train at Osier, Colorado, on May 25, 1999. This â... (more)

I Waited All Morning for a Train at Ken's Crossing, and All I have to Show for it is a Picture of this Truck! - A contractor for BNSF sprays salt solution on the tracks and ballast to me... (more)

During the Second World War, the U. S. government had Pullman construct a large fleet of troop sleepers. After the war, surplus cars were purchased by several railroads and converted to various us... (more)

A great display of WWII era equipment rests on display near Tooele, UT.

Santa Fe owned two types of Burro cranes, the type 30 and the type 40. Type 30's had the pulleys for the boom arm located on the roof, while the Type 40's, such as this one had pulleys located in ... (more)

In Eritrea, a few Russian Ural 375-D trucks that have been built in the Soviet Union in the 60’s and 70’s have been converted to run on rail wheels. They have been used in the Eritrean railway... (more)