Tricked out to the max, this is the zenith of EMD on John Santa Fe's railroad, SD75s not withstanding.

The Norfolk & Western 1218 sits in the yard at the Virginia Museum of Transportation. The locomotive had been moved out from under the shelter for a special event photo shoot for the weekend.

Originally ACL, ex-SCL. Gotta love those 45s.

A Hiawatha lays over before heading back to the windy city.

The Amtrak 40th Anniversary Train rests in downtown Milwaukee with the 406 head out. It was visiting on its national tour the weekend this photo was taken.

On a fast section of double-track southbound at Ferrier Road, Train 11 was sporting some fancy-pants power today, the recently unveiled Veterans' unit #42 with #156 bloody nose Amtrak Heritage. T... (more)

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A single SD38-2 has this empty grain train moving at track speed on the former Rock Island line out of Peoria, Illinois.

BNSF 1027 (Dash944CW) in a Heritage I paint scheme heads to the Denver Yard.

GECX 8635 (General Electric leasing) lettering under the cab window on an EMD locomotive. Interesting.

With the Front Range standing tall in the background, it’s easy to see why they call it the Rock and Rail as this former Rio Grande GP40 prepares to head west out of Pueblo just like it used to ... (more)

Back to back E8's in Illinois Central colors roll down the Canadian Pacific tracks just north of the Saratoga station on a fine Summer evening. The train is on the last leg of it's trip from North... (more)

The world's only surviving 4-12-2, Union Pacific 9000, on display within the Rail Giants Museum at Fairplex, Pomona, California.