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So a GP15-1, GG20GE, GP38, SL-1RCL and SW1500 walk into a bar … er … yard. And besides the variety of models and builders, many of them also have intere... (more)

CSX's Monon and New York Central heritage units lead train M21227 north out of Nashville, Tennessee, with the state capital building and part of the downtown skyline in the background.

BN 6009, an SD7, shares the Belknap Yard engine facilities with for more SD7s and SD9s was well as other EMD power between assignments they day after Christmas 1975. Located next to downtown Super... (more)

Lots of Ex CEFX bluebirds at the shop.

A P42DC, P40DC and Dash 8 lead the northbound Silver Star over the Buckingham Branch diamond at Doswell.

An extra rolls through Dorval Station with UP & NS power.

In December 2004 the Louisville Ky. area got hit with several inches of snow. CP AC4400CW 9501 leads CSX Z490 north in New Albany Indiana traveling over the old former Monon route. Before it can h... (more)

Big Blue in the Bronx. CSX bay window caboose 21107 and an unknown Railbox boxcar are seen sitting in Oak Point Yard in the Bronx. The caboose is a Class N7D, was formerly Conrail 21107... (more)

There was a lot of interesting equipment in the San Luis & Rio Grande's yard in Alamosa when I visited. On the left is a former Southern Pacific caboose, Railroad Passenger Car Numbering Bureau (... (more)

On Christmas Day, Amtrak 30 led by ALC-42 310, flies through Washington Grove, MD with a friend of mine pointing from the cab.

Cab view of trains side-meeting /crossing/ at Ulaantolgoi station. Branchline Salkhit - Erdenet, Trans-Mongolian railway. Join and inquire about more tours of 2024: monrailpic@gmail.com

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Dash 9-44CW 4906, operating with FURX SD40-2 7287 (ex-BNSF 7287, originally BN 7287) and BNSF GP38-2 2277 (ex-BN 2277, née-SLSF 422), approaches Cajon Pass' T... (more)

Paralleling BNSFs Copper City mainline, the Butte Anaconda & Pacific sees similar seldom volume, but has an upgrade for power with two very unique GP9s still operational. Heres one of the two, alo... (more)

Bluebirds and Dandelions NS 3982, a former CIT Rail Leasing AC44, awaits repairs alongside UP 6052, an AC44 that NS wrecked in 2023.

A ten car California-Nevada R.R. Historical Society Excursion is seen at Roseville California on November 30th 1957. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.