While visiting Modesto to check out the relocation of Santa Fe 2921, I kept hearing a horn off in the distance that finally drew me away during a lull in BNSF traffic. As it turned out, it was a M... (more)

Santa Fe 2921, built in 1943 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, basks in the sun at the Modesto Amtrak Station following its move out of Beard Brook Park just days before. The 650-ton locomotive and... (more)

The orange logo lives on, although most passers-by likely do not know what it represents. Between the Clark Fork River and the University of Montana, this is the former Milwaukee Road mainline in ... (more)

Fallen Flag Reflections: Conrail GP30 #2233 casts its reflection off of the Pennsylvania Railroad's famous GG1, giving a kind of eerie look at how some railroads fall to changing times.

Old vs. New. UP 9000 is one of the most unique engines at the museum. It was the first of the class to be built, the last to be retired, and is the sole survivor. It was one of the first pieces th... (more)

The Southern Pride Mobile Painting contractors were completing the Vermont Railway SD70M-2 432, former FURX 103, nee Florida East Coast 103, while also beginning the body work and sanding of Provi... (more)

The Southern Pride Mobile Painting contractors have released the Vermont Railway SD70M-2 432 in fresh red paint. The 432 will be on home rails by the weekend after having been painted in St. Alba... (more)

The Southern Pride Mobile Painting contractors have released the Vermont Railway SD70M-2 432 in fresh red paint. The 432 will be on home rails by the weekend after having been painted in St. Alba... (more)

What was once the Costa Rica transcontinental mainline is now just a place the local residents walk around their homes. Outside of some local commuter rail operations around San Jose, railroading... (more)

What was once the Costa Rica transcontinental mainline is now just a museum. I spent some nice time with the curator, and while my Spanish was once pretty good, sucks now. But I still could cobb... (more)

A trio of brand new Southern Pacific C44-9Ws await pickup on the General Electric Transportation Systems CSXT interchange track in Erie, Pennsylvania on May 27, 1994. The units, 8118, 8117 and 81... (more)

Tennessee Pass was still a hopping place but rumors of its demise had us visiting with plenty of Kodachrome on hand in June of 1994. To top off the visit, the majority of trains were running with... (more)

A fresh Southern Pacific Railroad C44-9W awaits delivery at the General Electric Transportation plant in Erie, PA on June 27, 1994.

The third of what will total five freshly painted New England Central Railroad SD40M-2s emerged from the shops this week as NECR 3474. The 3474 is the former NECR 2764 and prior to that UP 2764. ... (more)

New England Central Railroad's SD40M-2 3477 in fresh paint at St. Albans, Vermont. The unit is formerly the NECR 2714 and had previously been in UP yellow/grey colors and was ex-UP 2714, exx-SP 8... (more)