Buenos Aires al Pacifico's ALCo. export-model RSD16 #8507 pulls empty freight cars along Transportes Metropolitanos Roca S.A.'s four-track mainline after having left Kilo. 5 Yard through its south... (more)

Christmas 'snow clear' is displayed as green over red on the northbound White River Junction South Siding Switch interlocking signal ahead of the Amtak Vermonter on Sunday night. During lightly f... (more)

A FEW MARBLES LEFT. On a back road in New Hampshire, an old crossing sign (with most of its marble reflectors intact) stands sentinel at twilight — just in case a lonely, midnight mo... (more)

Alone, unloved and unwanted. Gen. Douglas MacArthur once said that "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away." That pretty well describes what's happening with this old gal. You are lo... (more)

Welding Rail - A BNSF joint elimination crew welds the rails that MOW workers had set in and placed the night before on main track #1 through the station at Fullerton California. I ... (more)

Hot Rail, Main Two! - BNSF MOW workers replace the track on Main #1 through the station at Fullerton California as a Westbound stack train passes at track speed a mere 6 feet away. ... (more)

With the museum having just closed for this night of the L.A. County Fair, 4014 quietly waits for the next day to come so it can amaze even more people at its massive beauty. I had always wanted t... (more)

End of the BNSF TRANSCON - BNSF MOW workers and their contractors replace the track on Main #1 through the station at Fullerton California. The last time this was done was 14 years ago... (more)

Snappin Track - Like on a large HO layout with Bachmann EZ Snap Track (C), BNSF MOW workers and their contractors replace the track on Main #1 through the station at Fullerton California... (more)

Old school power waits for it's next duty at the NS Ashtabula Harbor yard

Sumpter Power: Plymouth #110. The primary yard goat around the Sumpter Valley Yard in McEwen, Oregon is this 10-ton Plymouth Gas Mechanical Switcher. The build date of this powerful little... (more)

Sumpter Power: Mikado #20. The Sumpter Valley Railway's "other" Mikado is this 1920 Alco 2-8-2, which carries the line's number 20. The 20 and its sister engine, the 19, were identical loc... (more)

Sumpter Power: Mikado #19. The Sumpter Valley Railway's other "runner" is this 1920 Alco 2-8-2, which carries the line's number 19. The 19 and its sister engine, the 20, were identical loc... (more)

Eastbound to pickup Polar Express cars.

Old Henry serves on standby duty in The Great White North of Chetwynd, BC in the event his services are needed for the next crisis on the British Columbia Railway. In the background locomotives aw... (more)