Photo by Dave Petke. From my collection.

Challenge: Top this for a bad paint job. This was the yard switcher de jour I found on a business trip. Former C&O unit.

Operational power car TBD # 2057 of a gasturbine powered train of the SNCF in the "Cité du Train" railway museum in Mulhouse. The RTG (Rame à Turbine à Gaz) class of the French state ... (more)

Quiet but rugged looking these units are working industries while headed west to eventually tie up at Grace. Here they’re moving west to gain access to the west end of the passing track.

Railroading requires constance adjustment to situations that arise. A unit train is coming so these units were pulled off a train to run light and clear out cars to make room for it. The big Kno... (more)

Napa Valley Railroad number 73 basks in the early morning sunlight in their yard in Napa.

Aside from the new units painted in Heritage paint schemes, there were also some actual heritage units in Spencer, North Carolina back in July 2012. All three locomotives were built in the 1950s. ... (more)

Train Rides. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH) RDC-1 no. 32 (Budd, 1953) is seen passing Vintage Locomotive, Inc. (VLIX) RSC-2 (ALCO, 1949), née Seaboard Airline Railroad no... (more)

Slated for shop time?

GUTHRIE OK March 26 1979 — Santa Fe CF7 2455 is assigned to switching duties in this one-time capital of Oklahoma. The unit is tied up just south of the station. EMD built the F unit in May 1951... (more)

Well-Travelled Survivor. Oshawa Railway steeplecab no. 18 (Baldwin-Westinghouse, 1918) is seen resting at the Connecticut Trolley Museum. Originally built for the Auburn & Syracuse Rail... (more)

A rare B32 leads Amtrak's Silver Star out of Cary with a pair of the usual P42s trailing.

That green varied a great deal over the years and on different units. The unit started on NYC, then went to PC, then CR and ended up at the Alco orphanage. Photo by Mike Dolenski, from my collec... (more)

Renfe's Series 443 was a high-speed train prototype that in 1977 reached 200 km/h. In 1987 it made its last trips as a high-speed test train on the line from Madrid to Alicante. Since then it has ... (more)

I seem to remember a country music song with the lyric “some days are diamonds, some days are stones” Well, September 16, 2013 was a diamond for me at Helper Yard, Utah. I had driven from my r... (more)