As my Kentucky sojourn was ending I decided to get back to over to this operation. While not as exciting as the Alco alligator that was here previously it was good to see at least one of the rare... (more)

DENVER CO Oct 4 1983 — Burlington Northern SD9 6144 awaits its retirement at a crowded engine facility near city center. EMD built the 6144 (s/n 19001) in March 1954 for the Burlington as CBQ 34... (more)

The two sections of the forest system at Covasna-Comandau were separated by an inclined plane first opened in 1886. The plane was entirely worked by gravity, the heavier loaded wagons pulled up th... (more)

An eastbound manifest has stalled on the 1% grade of Kirkwood Hill and a pair of switchers from the Ewing Avenue Yard in St. Louis has been called in to help the train up the hill.

New Jersey Transit ALP-45DP 4506 had a slight mishap when a rail gave out while it was being moved.

ARGENTINE KS May 2 1982 — Santa Fe slug 129 was built by EMD (s/n 25408) in July 1959 for Union Pacific as SD24B 420B. UP retired the unit in April 1978 and sold it in August 1978 to Naporano Ir... (more)

After wintering on an industrial siding in Kolbe, Illinois, the BUGX F7's are on the move again, being handed off by the KJRY to the Tazewell & Peoria railroad. A TZPR SW10 shoves the 2 units tow... (more)

My wife called and said she'd seen a special train so the chase was on. Carrying export locomotives with trucks on heavy duty flatcars this high and wide was probably destined for Norfolk. As ye... (more)

ATSF 2-10-4s 5034 and 5030 lead a 62 car freight, east of Belen New Mexico, in 1946. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

YN2 EMD CSXT 8863 is one of the last remaining EMD locomotives painted in CSX's "YN2" paint scheme. It remains stored here in Cumberland, MD along with a "YN1" SD40 (no... (more)

Radnor Yd roundhouse at Nashville , Tn

BN RCU 108 is seen at Harrison St. roundhouse, Minneapolis along with a former GN transfer caboose rebuilt from a Baldwin switcher. This remote control unit was converted from BN F7B 661 (x-GN 448... (more)

SD38 6927 and MT6 slug 1127 work the hump at Selkirk.

Exactly one week after being released from the paint shop at West Cressona, Reading & Northern 40th anniversary unit no. 1983 leads the railroads premier freight train into the Lehigh Gorge at Gle... (more)

Both old and newer sit in the storage lines at Topeka Ks.