BN 6607 and mate pick up a switcher at North La Crosse, WI. BN 6607 was formerly GN F45 No. 434, and shows off its fresh new paint. I could smell the fresh paint on this unit and suspect it was it... (more)

a pair of brand new SW1500's await duty at SP Torrance station

From the Silver Rails Gallery Collection: What looks to be a brand new set of A-B-B-A FT's await an assignment. We don't have much info on this picture, so any contributor contributions would be g... (more)

When green was new
Brand-new Burlington Northern EMD SD60M No. 9256 gets set up in Clyde Yard engine facility at Cicero, Illinois, on January 26, 1991, back when locomotives in a coat o... (more)

They don't come any cleaner than this! UP8788 east ILXG4X, Beaumont, Ca

brand new 757 sits in track seven at BNSF's exSanta Fe Hobart yard diesel facility

A pair of engines wait in the helper pit at Altoona. The F3a is a PRR Class EF15 and the close unit is a Baldwin Passenger Shark BP20 Number 5777, with a BLW designation DR-12-8-3000.

From my grandfather, Eugene Diller's, collection. The westbound Zephyr slows for a station stop at Glenwood Springs.

The new H-1 Dash 9's were just starting to get common on train in early 1998. Here a westbound Z-train has 3 fairly new Dash 9's and is about to Burke Siding east of Savanna.

Seaboard System was a US Class I railroad that was created after the consolidation of the Family Lines System railroads (Louisville & Nashville, Seaboard Coast Line, Gerogia Railroad, Clinchfield ... (more)

"Four Deuces" No. 2222, one of thirty new GP20C-ECOs being delivered to St. Paul, is being set up at St. Paul on a cold January afternoon.

A pair of brand new MACs leads the "BO" upgrade to the State Line Tunnels on a gorgeous spring morning in the Taconic Hills.

First run of 1010
The second section of Burlington Northern Santa Fe stack train No. 15 is pulled by C44-9Ws No. 1010 and 1009 east of Java, Montana, on Marias Pass on October 8, 1996. ... (more)

When Amtrak took over (most of) America's passenger rail operations in May 1971, they had to make due with a hodge-podge of diesels, mainly E-units, built in the 1940s and 1950s that were, to put ... (more)

You can tell by the rusty coupler that the SP 350 is brand new! A fine three pack of GE AC4400CWs lead the second section of a Geneva Steel to Coop coal empty east through Spanish Fork Canyon whil... (more)