The end of the day is near at Blue Island Yard... recently IHB has been using foreign road power for yard pulldowns. CN 2501 and GEVO lead an east end pulldown at Blue Island Yard. It is hard to s... (more)

After reversing at the interlocking east of MORRIS Tower, Extra 52 shoves the 8 SEPTA electrics on a track for pick up by COnrail Shared Assets who will deliver them to their final resting place.

End Of The Line - After years of serving commuters in the Philadelphia area, SEPTA's AEM-7 (and sole ALP-44 motor) are taking one last ride up the Northeast Corridor. This time it is to be sent to... (more)

Amtrak Dash 8-32BWH 508 switches a cut of autoracks at Amtrak’s Sanford Auto Train Station. Southbound Auto Train number 52 arrived thirty minutes earlier, and several Amtrak Dash 8-32BWHs are ... (more)

My father got this photo of SLSF H10-44 276 in Kansas City, Missouri circa early 1970s. I'm not sure of the exact location, perhaps 19th Street Yard. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo.

Three PRR Alco RSD-12 8670, 8664 & 8666 were assigned to the pusher role in August 1964. Every freight departing Altoona for Gallitzin and the West was assigned a pusher on the rear to assist th... (more)

SD18 One of only 54 SD18s built for domestic use... This SD18 soldiers on in shortline service in South Haven, Kansas. Built in 1963 and riding on Alco trucks this monster was designed f... (more)

Pan Am road freight POAY is seen passing through Andover, approaching CPF-Vale with a nice matching set of power.

Union Pacific GP40P-2 has been assigned to the local that originates in Anaheim for several months now, and it is hard to not go out to photograph it as it is one of only three GP40P-2s bui... (more)

Norfolk & Western EMD GP30 No. 558, complete with a high-hood nose, sits at Peoria & Pekin Union Railway’s yard at Peoria in March 1984. Only Southern Railway and N&W GP30s came with the unique ... (more)

An obvious former Milwaukee Road unit, WAMX EMD MP15AC No. 1598 sits at Columbia Falls, Montana, while operating for Mission Mountain Railroad on October 7, 2018. The Soo Line black patch “bandi... (more)

Power-starved UP had to pull everything off the shelves in early 1984 and for a few months Centennials were back in service. This included Feather River Canyon. Here is 6927 winding its way throug... (more)

In August 1980, we ran across this Bicentennial GE 44-tonner at a quarry in Bellevue, Ohio. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo.

Canton 1906 switches cars in a snowy Penn Mary Yard.