70 Floating hoppers and tumbleweeds

While traveling down highway 70/84 between Texico and Lubbock, Texas, I hoped to see some BNSF trains along the route. Never did I expec... (more)

"Condemned" Santa Fe Chief boxcar 32150 sits among the trees near the east end of the BNSF Clovis yard. On the other side of the trees and only a couple hundred yards away, is the busy BNSF Trans... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin Locomotive Works and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive builder's cards when my father would visit hi... (more)

Santa Fe 3282 rests on its side, the victim of a derailment just north of highway 138 in Cajon Pass. Note the front coupler has been completely snapped off. Heavy rain storms caused track damage... (more)

Schnabel Cars WECX 800 (red) & WECX 801 (blue) rest together in the Port Terminal yard near historic downtown Charleston on Memorial Day.

Here is a new railroad for Railpics, the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway. My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin Locomotive Works and he would give my f... (more)

Heavy thunderstorms the night before have left a little lake around the former Providence & Worcester 3008. I was told that the NREX 3008, the former Conrail 7136 and CSX 7001 will likely be scra... (more)

The owner of the Tunnel Inn informed us that the westbound 21E had not one, but two Norfolk Southern Heritage units on it, with the Penn Central 1073 on the point followed by the Lehigh Valley 810... (more)

While recently going through the last remaining items of my Dad's estate, I came across this old Baldwin Locomotive Works card of Santa Fe Northern 3764. My Dad's great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr.... (more)

After four days of freezing cold and rain, the sun has come out, giving the crew that is restoring Santa Fe Northern 2926 an opportunity to work on the big locomotive. Safety is heavily stressed ... (more)

GMTX 341, which is the former CSX 1172, sits in the Locomotive Specialist facility in Waycross, Georgia as CSX 4288 and CSX 4063 pull a mixed manifest train towards Rice Yard.

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)

Union Pacific 3985 begins a photo run-by at Point of the Mountains, Utah. UP 3985 was still burning coal, and on this trip, set many brush fires between Salt Lake City and Provo. After this trip a... (more)

NWP 1922 sits with SP 4435, SP 4347, SP 4451, B&LE 716B and B&LE 718A (F-7 A and B units), plus other rolling stock that could be in museums, in Schellville, California.

SP 8732 leads an eastbound manifest train out of the smog filled Los Angeles basin and into the mouth of the San Timoteo Canyon.