Trona Railway's "Daily Run" crosses Searles Station Rd on it approach to Searles, where the crew will interchange with the Union Pacific before returning to Trona.

Lehigh Valley Rail Management's AM job departs Iron Hill Yard on a rainy morning with a transfer run to NS behind a trio of ex-L&N/CSX switchers. This was once a booming location in the midst of B... (more)

Union Pacific GP35 762 is an interesting locomotive. Recently repainted in North Platte NE (on September 18, 1974), this locomotive was not purchased new from builder EMD. Built as EMD Demonstra... (more)

CN's latest Dome Car, the CN 119, heads to sweet home Homewood on the tail end of Z 149. In Fresh CN business paint the former Amtrak 10031 "Ocean View" has a new life on CN. The car is... (more)

One Month: Just one month after being released from the Wabtec facility in Erie, PA, this AC44C6M was involved in a derailment as the trailing locomotive on NS 96Z in Madison, MO after the train w... (more)

ATSF 2-10-2 1696 is seen helping EMD E6 number 15 with a ten car Super Chief near Morley Colorado in 1942. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

As passenger trains were cancelled everywhere a few classy looking units could still be captured. By the time I got to Wichita Falls later that year they were gone. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, fr... (more)

Locomotives really are washed once in a while
A Union Pacific EMD SD9043MAC gets a thorough cleaning before heading into the main shop for an overhaul on Track 2 at the east side buildi... (more)

A quartet of grimy Southern Pacific SDs roll through the Devil's Garden. This area is a lava flow created by eruptions of nearby Mount Shasta.

SP 9 waits at the Owenyo trainorder office for its last orders. It had been filling in while diesel SP 1 was in the Bakersfield shops, but the diesel is back from the shops and soon will take ove... (more)

Factory Fresh!

As the sun appears over the San Bernardino Mountains, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway train Q-NYLA (Quality Network [TOFC/COFC]; East Coast [CR Connection in Ch... (more)

Sacrificed for structural testing, derelict VIA Rail equipment sits at CAD. At left is more ex-VIA Rail equipment - a testbed built on an LRC-3 frame.

CPKC Railway train 113, an intermodal train heading from Hochelaga, Québec, to Coquitlam, British Columbia, is westbound on CPKC’s Laggan Subdivision, paralleling the Bow River. Canadian Pacif... (more)

Norfolk & Western 2-6-6-4 1201 leads 80 cars westward through Roanoke Virginia in 1936. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A set of geeps that power CSX's pair of Norlina Sub locals lay over for the weekend in Raleigh next to some of NCDOT's passenger equipment.