Light diesel shunter pulling flat car loaded with wheels

The world needs another Selkirk switcher shot, right?

Slug 145 and Mother unit 1556 SD39.

Slug first. Slug CN 218 and GP9 CN 7228 have just arrived at Southwark Yard with grain empties from the Port of Montreal.

A IHB slug set works the east end of Blue Island yard.

A new slug has entered the world of railroading. Built on-site at TEMCO grain facility in Tacoma, from the old SW1200 219, which sat unused for years in this very spot. Originally this was the N... (more)

An NP slug helps an EMD switcher push long strings of cars over the hump.

Winchester and Westerns one-of-a-kind slug sits with other W&W power at the Gore locomotive shop.

Winchester and Westerns one-of-a-kind slug sits with other W&W power at the Gore locomotive shop. RIP Elvis!

SCL Slug 3000 (rebuilt from L&N Baldwin VO1000 #2202) working with S-12 #206 at Hamlet, NC. [11/71]

The RF&P had three yard slugs that were built from Alco switchers. Instead of a number, the slugs were assigned the first three letters of the alphabet. "C" is shown here next to Pot Yard's engi... (more)

Made from a Fairbanks-Morse H24-66 "Trainmaster"

All the slugs await disposition following shutdown of the ROCK. 999-284-54 are at this end. The line of C415s can be seen by the backshop to the left.

The alco heritage is evident in this Ex-Conrail chop-shop masterpiece. I found it strange that CSX only painted the B end of slug yellow and not the F end...perhaps they needed a place to get rid ... (more)

The Ugly Duckling...the other four slug sets at Selkirk feature Dark Future Paint, like the two in the background. Also, #2463 is a still active SD38, it sounded great...

BC Rail slug S 406 and CRS20 605 switch in North Vancouver BC. The slug was rebuilt from an MLW RS3 and the 605 was rebuilt from an MLW RS18.

Lots of unusual power is pictured here: a slug set, run-through UP power and lastly, a remotored ex-EL SD45-2...the oversized fuel tank and horn placement gives it away...

Nice name for a slug, Sluggo. Trainman prepares to hop on the T-1.

Aside from some grime above the cab, a clean TRRA 2205 rests in the Madison yard.

this diesel "tractor" is shunting cars in a non-electrified siding behind the station of Meilen to the ramp of MIDOR AG biscuit and ice-cream factory

"Big Horn Pass", on the rear of the combined "Empire Builder/North Coast Limited" two days before Amtrak. Better not leave the cars sitting next to the business on the left...

Geeps coming and going...

"Tugalo River", now in company/business car service

Equipment for number 17 at left; number 1 at right. Look at the shine on the number plate on the dome! (Photo taken on Twentieth Century Railroad Club tour.)

Former New York Central 6 Double Bedroom Lounge sleeping car

A pair of retired ex-UP remote control units await their final fate in the back yard of the CRANDIC shop.

A "retired" stencil painted on the side and the UP blacked out on ex-Up 101 tells the story for what may be the end for this Control Cab Remote Control Locomotive unit as it sits on a siding Cedar... (more)

A four truck center cab. Former CHG&E, number unknown.

Articulated loco 1556 at work at Qitaihe mines

Two big six-axle gensets pull a long string of cars out of the yard in preparation for pushing it over the hump.

A 3 car set of SEPTA Silverliner V's dwell at the end of the line by the station in Doylestown, PA. Typically, trains do not depart until the arrival of a replacement set each passing each other ... (more)

A set of SEPTA Sliverliner V's arrives at the Doylestown, PA passing the old Reading freight station (now a restaurant named "The Station Tap"). The roof of passenger station can be seen to the f... (more)

The early morning rush begins at SEPTA's Thorndale station just east Amtrak's former PRR yard in Thorndale, PA, the terminus for SEPTA's Paoli/Thorndale line. Here we see a set of Silveriner V EM... (more)

A trio a Silverliners with ice still dangling from the weekend blizzard.

An ex. Reading Silverliner on its home territory, heading back into Philadelphia after its trip north to West Trenton. You can see the old tower that is now used as a crew quarters for the yard.

Budd style Pin and Cup MU coupler on a SEPTA Silverliner II. Note air connection and MU control grid.

This sign stood at he entrance to the huge Milwaukee Road shop complex in Milwaukee, WI. It's hard to believe the Milwaukee Road has been gone for over 30 years now, and there is virtually nothing... (more)

DB locomotive derived from the OeBB Taurus - Below is the loading track for trucks

Guillermo Sanchez © 2014

This morning I photographed with satisfaction, this electric locomotive, class 120 or "Hellas Sprinter" while arriving at the station coming from the depot.

A Vectron 193 multisystem of the Italian company "INRAIL" is waiting for the green light at the head of a freight train of clay transport crates.

A Vectron of the "DB Cargo Italia" E.191.339 is in self-switching during the preparation of a freight train which will then leave for Switzerland. ... (more)

Siemens Vectron E.191-003 and 191.002 belonging to the private operator "FuoriMuro" rests in the afternoon.

SIEMENS in pairs, formed by locomotives: Vectron class E-191 and a locomotive class E-189

In this shot one of two new Siemens Vectron belonging to the Italian railway company "FUORI MURO" This company already does with other materials maneuvering in the port of Genoa, now with the Vec... (more)

Off to Austria. An Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB, Austrian Federal Railways) Railjet train is seen departing Budapest Keleti pályaudvar (Eastern Station) bound for Vienna with Si... (more)

For a brief moment VIA 2203 Trainset sits on the Battle Creek Fuel Pad without the transport locomotive attached. The UP 6279 was pulled off and traded for the CN 3061 to finish the trip to Montr... (more)

Brightline has recently unveiled Basecamp, its Orlando Vehicle Maintenance Facility. This $100 million dollar facility will be the primary maintenance base for Brightline's trains capable of anyth... (more)

Newly arrived Brightline Trainset waits at the Orlando shops. Taken with permission during a FECRS tour.

Amtrak Midwest Chargers sit in the yard.

A San Joaquin set shoves into a service track in Oakland, as a Capitol Corridor waits for a clear signal on the main track.

A southbound San Joaquin arrives in Oakland. The Port of Oakland and the Bay Bridge are visible in the distance

Lead by Unit Pacific 2584, brand new NCTC 5006, 5007, 5008 and 5009 sit in the West Colton yard as a storm off the Pacific Ocean approaches. Soon the new locomotives would be turned over to the B... (more)

Awaiting Assignment: A collection of several different locomotives (and former locomotives) is visible at Chicago's 18th Street locomotive facility. In this scene from June of 2022, the new... (more)

An extra long and double ended Amtrak 1566 deadhead takes the Roundhouse Lead to San Diego Jct. enroute to LAUS as some F59s, F125s and Metrolink's sole F40PH sit at Keller.

Amtrak California No. 2122 takes a break between trips on Pacific Surfliner as waits for more service at Amtrak's Redondo Junction maintenance facility. Also found on one of the turntable w... (more)