Jack stands are used to raise an Amfleet Coach in order to swap out a wheel set (not the missing wheel set). The new wheel set will be rolled under the car and carefully aligned as the car is lowe... (more)

These were around for a while looking good and sounding almost as good as the ones with the real 20-cylinder 645s under the hood. I keep waiting for somebody to do an SD30. After all, parts is ju... (more)

"Team Track Around the Bridge"

On a cloudy December 26th, 2023 morning, Metro-North Railroad Train 1518 treks east past the remains of the abandoned Stratford Team Track in ... (more)

Ex-Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines.

Montana Rail Link’s 840 local departs Trident, Montana, on September 21, 2008. In the background on the other side of the Missouri River is the empty, abandoned grade of Milwaukee Road’s Pacif... (more)

The Colorado Railroad Museum's Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad's #491 (2-8-2) gets backed into the roundhouse after spinning on the turntable.

Fifty two years ago Wilmot Model Railroad Shop in Prattville was a beacon for model railroaders in the deep south. We traveled there as often as possible to buy treasured models and to chit chat ... (more)

After departing Los Angeles, Amtrak train 4, the eastbound Southwest Chief, arrived at its first stop, Fullerton, 20 minutes behind schedule. But this allowed the setting sun, which had be... (more)

With both the "Virginian" and "Conrail" heritage units leading, 12Z pauses for a quick moment on the bridge while a motorboat races by the scene. The conductor may or may not have used this as a... (more)

My, what big radiators you have
With all of the added emission restrictions over the last couple of decades, the cooling capabilities of modern locomotives demand larger radiators, culm... (more)

BNSF 1826 (SD40-2 in old school paint) sits in the engine servicing yard in Denver, Colorado.

The Ge 4/4 II # 611 "Landquart" of the Rhaetian Railway with 1700 Kw and a maximum speed of 90 km/h was delivered on June 30, 1973 as the first of its series by SLM and BBC, was green with chrome ... (more)

This shot rather landed in my lap due to an errant merge onto the "A" route thru, as opposed to around, town. Thought I was done for, but the train maintained a delicate speed and I was... (more)

2816 pulls out of it's fourth maintenance stop of the day, on top of meeting six trains, on the marathon run of about 320 miles from Minot, ND to Glenwood, MN. Here the Hudson says goodbye to Nor... (more)

Springtime lilacs are blooming in a roadside park as a southbound BNSF coal train passes an old water tank that once filled CB&Q steam locomotives with water at Gurley, Nebraska, on May 23, 2014.