Christmas night—20 years ago
On the quiet eve of December 25, 1994, a gathering of Chicago and North Western locomotives slumber the night away at Butler, Wisconsin. New GE C44-9W No.... (more)

If you squint really, really hard, and use a lot of imagination, you might think a jolly visitor from the North Pole is running Union Pacific No. 6013. In reality, he is one of the hard-working ra... (more)

On Christmas Eve, Norfolk Southern's Pennsylvania Railroad heritage GE ES44AC rests with two other locomotives on the Gainesville Midland interchange track. After the Christmas shutdown en... (more)

Blue hour on the fuel tracks
Nightfall is approaching, with whiteout of a spring snowstorm turning to the “blue hour” at Union Pacific’s North Yard locomotive facility on April 15... (more)

Visibility during an April 15, 2013, snowstorm in Denver, Colorado, limited sight distance as can be seen of several strings of locomotives at Union Pacific’s North Yard diesel servicing. Snow-c... (more)

Union Pacific GE ES44AC No. 7497 sits outside UP’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility at Kansas City, Missouri, the night of October 22, 2013.

Several EMD locomotives in the middle of shop time, including two SD70Ms, sit in front of the Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 8, 2014.

EMD wide-nose locomotives such as SD70Ms on Union Pacific featuring winged logos are not exactly centered on the nose, but is is especially noticeable on newer SD70ACes, due to the size and locati... (more)

With a cold snap, everything went south. Train 101 had to reduce at Hornepayne, and then suffered mechanical problems on the Caramat Sub and had to reduce even more! Here a dead 2116 waits to be p... (more)

This former B&O S-2 is still on the roster but a pair of rebuilt "hammerhead" UP EMD switchers do most of the work today at the Boise plant in Frostbite Falls.

There aren't too many end cab switchers remaining on the BNSF roster but here we find three awaiting their next call to duty in Duluth.

CN GP38-2 4712 awaits some attention from the diesel shop in Prince George. CN ES44AC 2848 and WC GP38-2 2005 to the left have been serviced and are ready to return to road and yard duties, respec... (more)

My first visit to the EMCO plant was on December 30, 1980 and unfortunately our timing was poor as apparently they had stopped running mainline trains for the season as all the F-units were dead a... (more)

Machinists remove appliances and other parts from Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge 2-8-2 K-36 No. 481 in front of the Durango roundhouse on a pleasant October 15, 2014. After a busy tourist seas... (more)

At an open house at Denver, Colorado, on December 3-6, Denver’s Regional Transportation District was showing off its newest equipment—electric multiple unit commuter rail cars that will run on... (more)