Conrail's ex-New Haven caboose Class N-8A No. 23662 (originally NH Class NE-6 No. 687,) built by International Car Co. in 1948, rounds the Horseshoe Curve westbound, behind a Penn Central trail va... (more)

That Wonderful Wet Hog Smell!

Union Pacific SD40-2 8021, DDA40X 6901 and SD40-2 8032 hustle an 18-car California Livestock train (CLS), dubbed the "Farmer John" for its final destina... (more)

An empty Detroit Edison coal train heads for the Bailey Mine on the Manor Branch of the Monongahela Railway.

E-44 No. 4444, still in its Penn Central paint scheme, is in the long-hood forward mode, pulling a grain train eastbound. My Washington Boro cousin's neighbor's boy has ridden his bike to the cro... (more)

A classic CNW consist waits to attach to a freight at Altoona, WI in June 1979. CNW 968 is on of CNW's unique SD45s featuring the gong bell, applied a bit crooked, and no dynamic brakes. The 818 i... (more)

Looking more like a modeler's workbench than a railroad, CNW chop-nose fabricated windshield/head light panels are stored outside their Oelwein diesel shop awaiting installation on one of their GP... (more)

CNW 4480 is in the process of being kitbashed from CNW 1659, a May 1953 GP7 into a chopped nose GP7R, at Oelwein, IA. Oelwein was the Chicago Great Western's main locomotive shop, acquired by CNW ... (more)

A St. Paul-Kansas City freight rolls by the Rock Island (and CGW) depot in Waterloo, IA behind a pair of Geeps and two F7Bs. CNW 4351 was originally Quebec North Shore and Labrador 121, and 1953 e... (more)

The one-of-a-kind 10,000 horsepower EMD GM10B is waiting on a crew by the ancient PRR grade crossing sign along South Front Street. EMD borrowed some design technology from ASEA/Sweden (Allmänna... (more)

After dropping off a loaded iron ore train at the connection with Southern Pacific at Ferrum on the western end of the Eagle Mountain RR the power and caboose head back toward Eagle Mountain.

Pioneers

The first production stainless steel commuter cars were six Pioneer III cars built by Budd for the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1958. Here, two of those six cars, with t... (more)

You never knew what you might encounter at Rio Grande’s North Yard in the mid- to late-60s. The Grande’s own roster was unexciting -- lines of Geeps, F-units and SW1200 switchers. The wild car... (more)

After its long dash across the high plains of eastern Colorado with westbound train 81, Rock Island F2A 43 is leaning on the brakes at Sable just east of Denver. In a few miles the train will come... (more)

Santa Fe EMD SD45 5333 leads an eastbound piggyback train through the Tehachapi Mountains at Bealville.

An L&N U30C rolls off of the turntable at Loyall, Kentucky. The hostler has an assistant riding with him on this warm May morning.