UP 4014 (Big Boy) leading the Home Run Express through Duncan

After several years of extensive repair and refurbishment, the former French 4-8-2 express train steamlocomotive 241 A # 65 of the Dampflok Depot Full (DDF) association successfully completed its ... (more)

Ex-Penn Central, exx-Pennsylvania Railroad.

A NS rebuilt GE AC44C6M, #40442, leads a Barstow-bound military train though Kingman Canyon as it descends down the steeper (1.8% grade) Main Track #1.

The two low-floor electric motor coaches GTW 2/6 AM1 and A11, both built 2003 by Stadler Rail in Switzerland, have just left the mountain station at the Montserrat monastery towards Monistrol de M... (more)

Shunting locomotive Geaf 2/2 # 20606 of the Rhaetian Railway on the turntable in Landquart, in use as shunting locomotive number 4. The locomotive supplied by StadlerRail is powered by the overhea... (more)

After several years of extensive repair and refurbishment, the former French 4-8-2 express locomotive 241 A 65 of the Dampflok Depot Full (DDF) association successfully completed its acceptance ru... (more)

Union Pacific locomotives rest in the yard at Helper, Utah, on the morning of March 17, 2009. The trio of GE AC4400CW/AC4400CW-CTEs are a helper set used to assist UP trains over Soldier Summit.

BNSF 9272 (SD70ACe) leads a long oil can train through the Big Ten Curve as it descends from Clay into Rocky, Colorado. The destination is Denver, the skyline of which is at the top of the photo.... (more)

CSX L637 at the Seaboard Air Line Depot in McBee

A Union Pacific Officer Special gets ready to leave the North Yard in Denver, Colorado and will run into the Colorado Rockies for the Moffat Tunnel.

Coal trains on the Santa Fe race track looked out of place. These York Canyon Coal trains were heading to McCook and points east. Usually, these heavy trains got 3-4 big GEs for power. As seen he... (more)

A loaded coal train bound for Newton, IL, crosses the Illinois River at Beardstown. The train is working westbound (south) on the Beardstown line towards Centralia. There, the train will be interc... (more)

The other side of the story. A shot of the other side of this nee CNW, ex UP unit is posted elsewhere. Not a bad cheap change of color scheme.. I don't think that red sill strip is kosher by th... (more)

Old Horse WMSR 561, a recently required ex-Norfolk Southern B32-8 ends its uphill trip to Frostburg. According to one of the conductors, the 561's air compressor broke during this trip, le... (more)