A 27 unit BNSF power move from Alliance is rolling just east of Sterling, NE on the St. Joseph Sub. The train is DP'ed 2x1 moving 24 Dash9's which are to be returned to service at Topeka Shop. Tha... (more)

Some of the SD9043MAC's that were stored here were pulled last year and either sold to the NS or returned to service. The remaining units on hand looked good today under a coat of fresh powder. S... (more)

This was EMD's attempt, along with the GM6C, to replace Conrail's aging fleet of PRR E44's and GG1's. Apparently they didn't impress CR officials enough, so no more were built and electric freight... (more)

WNY&P 6002 and 2 Alco's are on a Turtlepoint turn taking fuel at the south end of Eldred Siding. I hear that this routine as fuel taxes in PA are less than fueling at the yard and shop in Olean, N... (more)

Long Island Railroad C420's are dragging cars over the mini-hump in LIRR's Yard A in the view from Honeywell St. viaduct. Meanwhile, the Amtrak service tracks in Sunnyside Yard are filled with GG... (more)

When this slide was taken, I recall one or 2 trains arriving at Long Island City with FA power packs on the west end. All of the other diesel powered arrivals had to be set over and have their uni... (more)

Amtrak engine facility photographed from the Honeywelll St overpass.

GTEL's (gast turbine electrics) on the Oyster Bay branch approaching Roslyn Station. LIRR had 2 versions in the 1970's, built by GE and Garrett. Only 8 of the M1's were built/modified this way.

On this day in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, the BEDT was off to a rough start, but nothing that a few oak blocks couldn't handle, although repairing the track structure may have taken a litt... (more)

An eastbound on the main track meets a westbound lead by MP2138 in a soggy downtown Big Spring, TX. around the first week in September, 1980. Water from heavy rains west of town have funneled... (more)

It's Black Friday, 1975 version, as it is the day after Thanksgiving when I watched Erie Lackawanna employees rerail 3 cars in Hoboken using 2 derricks. There was no Hulcher or RJ Corman at this ... (more)

At this time this NYS&W boxcar was used for storage space at the Little Ferry roundhouse. The car was scrapped a few years later.

The Big Boy has arrived in Omaha as it crosses the 84th St bridge on the Lane Cutoff just south of I-80. This structure, built in 1977, replaced the original 2 lane tunnel under the fill as suburb... (more)

Former New Haven, ex Virginian motors laying over at the Meadows enging facility.

Another once in a lifetime trip to Maine in my dad's 1970 Skylark Custom produced this image. I even got a cab ride in an F3 that evening from the hostler who was using the units as a crew van to ... (more)