A long way from home and definitely a rarity in Northern Ontario, Executive Mac 9431 idles on the pool 8 leads awaiting its next assignment. The CP Fort William depot is visible in the back left.

An obvious former Milwaukee Road unit, WAMX EMD MP15AC No. 1598 sits at Columbia Falls, Montana, while operating for Mission Mountain Railroad on October 7, 2018. The Soo Line black patch “bandi... (more)

Santa Fe EMD SD45 No. 5341 is flanked by EMD GP7u No. 2013 and GE C30-7 8057 in front of the diesel house at the railroad’s Corwith Yard locomotive facility at Corwith, Illinois, on December 5, ... (more)

Several Soo Line and Milwaukee Road units rest outside the illuminated enginehouse at the locomotive facility at Bensenville Yard in Bensenville, Illinois, on the night of December 5, 1987.

Dupo Deadline: a quartet of problematic SD9043MAC units await disposition, likely to nearby Metro East Industries, at the former Missouri Pacific Yard in Dupo, IL

Chicago & North Western locomotives await assignment at the railroad’s engine facility at Proviso, Illinois, on September 13, 1987. C&NW’s Proviso Yard was the railroad’s major yard in the C... (more)

Wisconsin Central EMD GP40 No. 3006 is in the railroad’s locomotive shop at Shops Yard in North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on September 26, 1992. On the left is Southern Pacific GP9r No. 3373 await... (more)

Amtrak EMD F40PH No. 260 gets a foamy bath inside the wash building at Amtrak’s locomotive facility in Chicago, Illinois, on February 22, 1992.

Denver & Rio Grande T-12 No. 168 gets serviced at Chama, New Mexico, on the evening of August 28, 2021. After service on Rio Grande for 55 years, the ten-wheeler spent 1938 to 2016 in Antlers Park... (more)

Built in 1874 by the Rio Grande, the shops and yard at Burnham, located a couple of miles south of downtown Denver, Colorado, were the main shop facilities for the railroad. In this later view on ... (more)

G&W's Chattooga & Chickamauga Railway GP9 Nº 1700 is sitting cold in the stub-end track at Holiman Yard in Lafayette, GA on a quiet Sunday evening. The former Milwaukee Road GP9 has been placed i... (more)

Looking straight down on the dynamic brake fans of Wisconsin Central EMD SD45 No. 6593 at the locomotive facility at Shops Yard at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on April 5, 1996.

Fresh out of a full overhaul and rebuild, NYA 151 poses in Morris Park Yard, in for a new traction motor.

Behind Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande Burnham Shops sits UP EMD SD60M No. 2328 on the night of December 9, 2015. The building behind is the main backshop, and the structure on the left and as... (more)

Comet I Takeover: Gladstone service this weekend has been overtaken mostly by classic Pullman-Standard Comet I equipment hauled by diesels due to overhead wire work. These cars were purchas... (more)