Fort Worth, we have a problem. Diesel fuel cascades from the walkway of BNSF 4019 as it departs Grass Lake, CA, following a stop to shut down the unit. Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE C44-9W (Dash 9-44CW)
Location: Grass Lake, California, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 4019
Train ID: H-BARPAS1-20D
Photo Date: June 22, 2013

The Deseret Power Railway's Pettibone crane drags freshly-painted DPR 4 into daylight for the first time. Unit 4 sports essentially the same paint scheme as Units 1 & 2, delivered new to the Dese... (more)

Spin the subway: A hostler at BART's Colma Maintenance Facility takes C car #403 for a spin on the unique X-shaped turntable, which doubles as an access road when not in use turning subway ... (more)

Amtrak California No. 738 rushes eastward through Benicia, CA, passing one of two Class G break bulk ships in the Railroad: Amtrak California
Locomotive: EMD F59PHI
Location: Bahia, California, USA
Locomotive #: CDTX 2009
Train ID: AMTK 738
Photo Date: May 29, 2010

Deep in the heart of the Palouse, half-hidden in the depths in the canyon formed by the region's namesake river, is this little gem: A wooden boxed-in Howe truss, the only one of its kind remainin... (more)

Six engines, DPU'd in a 2x3x1 arrangement, work up the 0.8% grade along the Colorado River with coal loads off the North Fork Branch. In the foreground, the trailing unit is shoving the last hand... (more)

Last week my fiancée and I hired fellow RP contributor Ross Fotheringham to take some family engagement photos in a fie... (more)

Stalked by a black helicopter: MRL's OCS was preceded along its run from New Westminster by a black helicopter, presumably providing security oversight ahead of the train -- and perhaps pro... (more)

In 2009, railroads idled whole fleets of locomotives in response to the massive decrease in traffic that resulted from the economic downturn. With seemingly every BNSF train in the Northwest powe... (more)

Officially in the capable hands of "Engineer Wyrock" (malapropism courtesy the North Branch Dispatcher while issuing the... (more)

This isn't your high school chemistry lab. A RailWorks crew has just dramatically ignited a thermite weld as construction activities for Sound Transit's Railroad: Sound Transit
Locomotive: Thermite weld
Location: Lakewood, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: September 18, 2010

Horsepower droppings.

This strange creature parked at Bord na Mona's Blackwater Works was once a Massey-Ferguson 135 tractor, converted by the railroad's shop forces into a rail-mounted utility vehicle. Bits of ingenu... (more)

Well, that was unexpected: Driving up I-5 in the wee hours of this morning after the Autumn Leaf Slide Show in Centr... (more)

During a quiet moment on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, an inbound train on the L Taraval line climbs away from the Pacific Ocean as the sun dips toward the horizon. The classic hills of S... (more)