ILSX 900, The CTM's leased SW8, heads to Goose Island to pick up a couple of empty lumber cars from Big Bay Lumber. The train is seen here street running on the Kingsbury st line just south of Gen... (more)

Old Sacramento was a place i loved as a child. An underdog basketball team, active railroad traffic with the state railroad museam, and walking around the SP shops. I Didn't know they recently mov... (more)

A Mennonite family watches as Strasburg RR SW8 8618 and caboose head back to Strasburg after dropping a tank car at the NS interchange at Paradise

The San Luis Central Railroad is a potato and agricultural chemical hauler operating between Monte Vista and Center, Colorado, a distance of 13 miles. The railroad is located in the fertile San Lu... (more)

Strasburg Railroad's sole EMD is parked in the yard for the weekend.

Former NYC SW-8, now SRC 8618, sits in the Strasburg yard at sunset.

Even the "new" power on the Strasburg Railroad is old. Former NYC SW-8, now SRC 8618, was built in 1953. Here she sits idle while ex-Great Western #90, built in 1924, wraps up yet another day of... (more)

Built 1952 & "served" in Korea

Canadian Pacific Railway SW8 no. 6705 and idler cars rests beside the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario, just across from Detroit, Michigan. A tug with a car float is in the process of crossing th... (more)

Hopper Jet Photo Freight Excursion Reading & Northern 801 & 802 head onto the Mahanoy & Shamokin Branch as the 803 sits on the Main Line at East Mahanoy Junction. Here, they are getting rea... (more)

NOUPT was a holdover from pre-Amtrak days when multiple passenger carriers would share ownership of a terminal road in important cities.

Larrys Truck and Electric LTEX 925 (SW8), with a chopped-top cab, tends to a grain car at the Manna Pro grain elevator in Denver. This locomotive is nearly 61 years old and still going strong.

CP seemed to have a unit or two assigned to every division point across the Northern Ontario corridor. This SW8 was normally found in the area and looked pretty clean for a yard goat that probably... (more)

MDDE 801 is the only operating example of the Conrail Express paint scheme, a short-lived marketing initiative between Conrail and partner shortlines. When the RS3Ms based at Massey, MD are not o... (more)