Built as CRIP 1328, a GP9, this beautiful green and yellow is a far cry from the tired bankruptcy blue she wore at the end of the Rock Island Line.

The classiest railway in Ontario sporting of power, up front is a NW2 with a FP9A in the back.

Nice paint on this veteran EMD as it basks in the morning sun at Proctor. Ten years ago this scene would have been solid maroon and gold.

A string of eight EMDs await their next call to service near the Proctor yard office.

Snow, sand and fuel: An employee from the fuel track at North Yard at Denver, Colorado, fuels and sands a line of locomotives on the very snowy afternoon of April 15, 2013.

A railroader at Denver’s North Yard sweeps out a switch at the fuel track before being able to move some locomotives in a spring snowstorm on April 15, 2013.

Montana Rail Link EMD SD9 No. 608 is in the Livingston Shops getting sheet metal work done by a MRL machinist on May 7, 2012.

CNZR 3760 is parked in the early morning sun on a quiet Sunday. This former SP GP9 now sports a chopped short hood and wears fading (yet still bright) New Brunswick Southern paint. The geep, sma... (more)

A New England Central GP38 and GP38AC spend a quiet Sunday afternoon in Palmer Yard. Adjacent to these units was a recently painted GP40-2CU in the orange and black corporate colors of Genesee & ... (more)

Sitting under a night sky, Winchester and Western number 709 sits and awaits for work the following day. Thanks to Joe Gonzalez for the lighting.

A stable of Rio Grande tunnel motors await work out of Helper, Utah on March 14, 1999. The UP assigned as many as 18 SD40T-2s to work Helper terminal well into the late 1990s. The 5411, 5405, 5385... (more)

Commonly assigned to coal trains, CN's first batch of AC powered GEVOs are inevitably starting to get dirty. CN ES44AC 2822 idles at Winniandy waiting to be put on a southbound load.

CN 2569 takes on fuel at Winniandy being prepped to head south on a coal train.

With it's other sisters already peeled off and getting set to leave on train C779, CN C44-9W 2642 idles on the north end of a C792 set that arrived yesterday and is waiting for another assignment ... (more)

A hostler from Union Pacific’s North Yard fuel tracks awaits the next move surrounded by snow-covered tracks and locomotives in a swirling April 15, 2013 blizzard at Denver, Colorado.