Unsung heroes
While passengers move about the train in the relatively roomier upper level of an Amtrak Superliner train, the kitchen staff faces cooking hot meals and washing dishes in ... (more)

The sun has just come up as the hostler aboard 4-8-0 No. 475 rakes over the fire.

Kershaw Ballast Regulator is sweeping ballast on some newly dropped ballast on the Norfolk Southern Lurgan line. MOW keeps them moving

Earlier in the morning at this location a locomotive hit the ground after a rail rolled under it. Here a crew from Simpson makes repairs to the crossing and trains were running again soon afterwa... (more)

A railroader at Union Pacific’s North Yard in Denver, Colorado, sweeps out a switch at the fuel track before being able to move some locomotives in a spring snowstorm on April 15, 2013.

At dusk, a workmen in the engine facility fills the front reservoir of big Dash 8 No. 9327 with sand.

UP 3427 East passes an MofW crew working on Main One as it departs Tucson.

The Fireman on Shay No. 6 shovels coal into the heart of the beast while performing a photo run-by at Whittaker, W.Va., on a rainy afternoon along Cass Scenic Railroad. Thanks to the MSRLHA and th... (more)

Shop workers replace the governor in EMD's first six-axle locomotive, SP SD7 No. 1521, formerly EMD demonstrator No. 660.

It's a nice day for outdoor work on May 14th, 2013, as Iowa Interstate GP38-2 717 has a traction motor/wheel set replaced on its rear truck at the shop in Council Bluffs, Iowa. By May 24th, 2013,... (more)

Maintenance Call... WSOR 4004 was taken off the point of its northbound local from Madison to Rock Springs and placed into the siding at Dane while the rest of the train idles on the mainli... (more)

The afternoon freight train to Freehold (SA31) was running especially late and I just happened to stumble across the reason why. Track maintenance was being performed on the Amboy Secondary just ... (more)

A worker for Engineers Construction Inc. (ECI) is cutting a section of rail to fit in a new panel track replacement for a crossing project in St. Albans, Vermont, while in the distance the NECR 43... (more)

Engineers Construction Inc. (ECI) crews are busy at work replacing the Elm Street multi-track crossing in St. Albans on the New England Central Swanton Subdivision. As crews positioned a section ... (more)

Work continues to replace this old wood trestle in far western Duluth as a pair of ex-Frisco units roll over it for what could be the last time. The new bridge is expected to be in service soon.