This is the heaviest and longest train to run on the BNSF Transcon and Tehachapi lines. It is the 17,000 ton grain train. It typically runs 9 Engines in three sets, lead, mid and rear. Dash 8 871 ... (more)

This is the C&O Allegheny type at the B&O Railroad Museum. The sophistication of the steam piping on this locomotive is the most complex of any I have seen. A Big Boy looks relatively simple but s... (more)

The Alco GE gas turbine engines with a hefty 8,500 horsepower apiece were the largest locomotives ever built. Engine X-26 partnered with 26B is one of two surviving locomotives of the original 30 ... (more)

This is the C&O Allegheny type at the B&O Railroad Museum. The sophistication of this locomotive is seen in the design of so many details. The high pressure steam pipes are a most usual configurat... (more)

Engines No. 6776 and B-Unit No. 6871 are FPA-4 built by MLW (Montreal Locomotive Works) in 1959. They are seen here on a storage track in Williams and in need of some paint.

A new Dead Line has been formed at Portola, California. The small UP yard is on the former Western Pacific line through the High Sierras. The line is either C40-8 or SD60 engines.

The newest locomotive on the San Pedro & Southwestern Railroad. This very short railroad is used exclusively to switch a Dynamite factory about five miles south of the Union Pacific mainline at Be... (more)

MLW DL535E White Pass #104 is going to lead a passenger train up the pass. This route use to go as far as Whitehorse in the Yukon, Canada. Now it mainly runs to the top of White Pass and a very ... (more)

From Wikipedia "Southern Pacific 4294 was the last steam locomotive ordered new by Southern Pacific Railroad (SP). It was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in March 1944, and was used hauling SP's... (more)

Lone White Pass & Yukon wood box car sits at the top of White Pass on the Canadian side of the US & Canada border. The old box car is used for shelter when the weather gets bad. The couplers and a... (more)

The brakeman sets the engine coupler to connect up a short train. This begins the run back to the exchange with the Union Pacific. The GP16 will push the train 5 miles back to the mainline. The pl... (more)

This is the old Santa Fe line over Raton Pass. The line has not been used for freight since 2004. Amtrak leases the line and runs one passenger train a day in each direction. Semaphores are in op... (more)

Engine 484 is in the lead and just beginning the decent down Cumbres pass to Osier station for Lunch. Firebox cinders started a trackside fire that will soon be put out by the crew that follows th... (more)

A trio of DL-535E begins the descent down the Sawtooth Mountains, which are part of the Alaska Coastal Mountains. The scenery is breathtaking, the slopes steep and my mother clings tightly to the ... (more)

GP60M's 106 and 120 dressed in Warbonnet Red colors are assigned Winslow, AZ yard duties. They are on the ready track waiting for their next assignment.