This was our first visit to Aberdeen, and the first train we saw, and it was disappointing at the time, because we had come to see the GG1s, E60s, and the Metroliners. Looking back, I'm glad I to... (more)

Just after lunch in Fowler, Colorado -- Mexican food, and good! -- we’ve come upon RSD 2159 just setting out for La Junta with a rattletrap collection of work cars. We poke alongside, shooting o... (more)

Two units from the Lake Superior Railroad Museum hold in the clear while a Union Pacific transfer shoves into BNSF's Rices Point yard. The two locomotives will handle an empty coal train for stora... (more)

A slot train being used to clear brush holds in the clear as two locomotives from the Lake Superior Railroad Museum cross over ahead.

Two veteran EMD models shove hard on 117 empty Detroit Edison coal cars being positioned along the North Shore Scenic Railroad for temporary winter storage.

Railroad Construction Company rebuilt the old Grumman Spur from the LIRR main line into Calverton Enterprise Park. They used the existing 1952 rail and replaced the rotted old ties. MP15AC 155 is ... (more)

A former BN SD40 hustles MRL's large wrecker from Laurel up the east slope of Bozeman Pass, likely headed to a derailment as this was the only thing moving.

Gearing up for the upcoming maintenance season.

Nearly five years after the D&RGW/SP merger it was still possible to see trains led by solid lash-ups of Rio Grande power. With the Denver skyline receding in the distance, a westbound work extra ... (more)

A former Great Northern snow dozer built at their St. Cloud, Minnesota shops plows an ex-NP line across north central Minnesota.

White Pass Work Extra. A pair of GE 90 Class Locomotives and their work extra await the call to duty, just north of the White Pass Shops on a cool afternoon in April.

Every spring, thi... (more)

Southern 2695 backs a wreck train around the curve just north of downtown as a work crew waits near the wreck site. The Man O' War has been gone for years, but the curve still has a fair degree o... (more)

Can't beat this power for a work extra as a former GN SDP40 hustles its train west with a hint of fall color along the river.

This former GN SDP40 rolls west with a work train along the ex-NP in western Montana between Noxon and Heron.

I’m thinking that cleaning the flues of a boiler on a steam wrecker goes to the low man on the seniority list! This young railroader uses high-presure air to blow out accumulated soot and grit f... (more)