A wrecked GP59 sits outside in the strings of stored and retired engines.

For the last week 8952 has been bouncing around on "home rails" from Battle Creek east to Flint and Flat Rock. I was able to go out on three nights to get photos of it and on this night ... (more)

Just after lighting the ring of fire, the flames are roaring out before being adjusted down. The ring of fire is used to sweat old tires off of the axle of steam engines and to put the new ones on... (more)

With the train emptied at the dock the empties return west past the large rock cut outside of Mapletown. Extremely large icicles line the rock cut from end to end and also feature a small waterfal... (more)

B&P was the first non class 1 railroad in the country to commission a Genset, here the 1401 is mated with a GP9 and a GP38 not seen switching out the Butler yard in the late afternoon. The 1401 ha... (more)

The engineer climbs down from a late running eastbound capitol limited sits at the Amtrak station with Amtrak 184 and 66 both in 40th Anniversary paint along with a regular P42. To the left of the... (more)

UP 7529 sits on the EEC/NS interchange in Erie awaiting a WB train to pick it up and take it to Chicago to the UP.

The Last time these two Berks were together was in Huntington in 1991, where they paced and double headed with each other and my grandpa was the engineer of the 1225.

CP 8916, GECX 2012, CP 8918 perform a slow runby at Walbridge road, at the end of the day both the CP Gevo's had problems and went back to the shop for work 8918 had computer problems and the 8916... (more)

At 5:45 shortley after the diamonds were placed in, a signal maintainer goes about grinding the rail to replace track wires.

The sand train power heads back to Midway with 5 engines after delivering the train to the BNSF.

Daylight 76 crew, doing Mill work before hauling slabs to Irvin shoves a cut of outbound slabs into the Valley yard. This would later go to NS's Kenny Yard.

The weather has turned from rain to sleet and snow as 844 prepares to depart the Golden spike Monument to head to the coach shops and then to Omaha.

URR 2 sits inside the shops along with it's old prime mover as the shops crews have it torn apart for a rebuild during the first ever family days at the Hall shops. The engine now wears the yellow... (more)

Just after sun rise 6988 and 7081 charge eastward in some morning fog as they pull a record freight towards Rock Island.