A pair of GEVOs wait for their empty hoppers to be filled with rock as the Vulcan switchers, seen on the right, take a break for the weekend. Railroad: Chattahoochee Locomotive Company
Locomotive: EMD GP16
Location: Loachapoka, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: CLCX 6120
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: February 03, 2008

The "Z Man", as it's usually called over the radio, departs Montgomery in a rather unusual manner. Instead of coming out of the S&... (more)

A relatively clean and brand new Union Pacific GEVO pulls a train of propylene tank cars out of one of the 44 classification tracks in the Blue Island hump yard. Since the yard lacks a designated... (more)

Nose to nose.

As it zigzags around the current UP locomotive servicing terminal and what’s left of the roundhouse and turntable from the Rio Grande steam days, a unit tower train from the Vestas Wind Tower pl... (more)

Cruising along at 40mph and at an elevation of 5700 feet, a Boeing 737 fuselage flies through the Centennial State at the head end of today’s KCKPSO as it keeps climbing the grade towards Palmer... (more)

HT-C Truck
Debuting in 1972 on the Dash 2 line of locomotives created by EMD, the HT-C truck was revolutionary for the fact that it was the first truck that allowed EMD to place all th... (more)

This beautifully painted Burlington Northern caboose sits on a still night in Calera's Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum as rain from earlier in the day reflects the iconic BN logo.

Built in 1952 for the Pennsylvanian Railroad, this veteran E8 will soon attract customers again as it’s slated to become one of the central attractions at the renovated Grants Mill Station shopp... (more)

Draft
With the Flagg Coal 75 pulling as much as she can, this train is in draft mode meaning there is no slack between the cars. With complete tension being applied between the couple... (more)

With the train safe across the road, the conductor radios back to his engineer and discusses how far they are about to shove in these former ACL/SCL phosphate hoppers that have now been reassigned... (more)

It's easy to tell which wheel set is the newer one on this car. The previous set was tagged by a wayside defect detector for a hotbox and thus resulted in this car being set out at the West Point... (more)

A former NS MoW piece of equipment no longer cleans up derailments, but instead spends its days at the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum with other unique pieces of equipment.

Just a little over a year from their rolling date, a pair of 115# strings of rail from the ArcelorMital rail mill in Steelton, PA have been installed along the former Western Railway of Alabama li... (more)

Norfolk Southern High The NS 2922, ex-Conrail 7746, now serves the railroad by training new hires on how to run a successful one at the NS training center. Many interesting types of equip... (more)