WW1002 leads the WW102 at my scrap yard, Hub Scrap Metals of Northern Virginia. It is very unusual for the power to be all the way back in the yard. These units are over 70 years old and sti... (more)

CSXT W303, a rail train, drops rail inside the Schenley Tunnel on CSX's P&W Subdivision. The east portal exits right between the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. This was t... (more)

J21 pulls a couple of empty box cars out of International Paper in Arden Hills.

The crew is out and inspecting the damage after FL9 2019 and the first car derailed on a photo runby.

FL9 2019 derailing during a photo runby on the Railroad Museum of New England's Railfan Day with 2019. Luckily there were no injuries but 2019 was damaged in the incident.

Santa Fe Shops

Cutting Off a Broken Arm: A NJ Transit crew saws off a broken pantograph arm on ALP-46 #4624, which had been pushing Northeast Corridor Line train no. 3861. The trailing pantograph on the u... (more)

Great Western Railway #2176 'Dinky' 0-4-0T tank engine sits in Fort Morgan. A bit of black paint would do wonders.

My Berkshire! Mess with it and pull back a shredded hand! He just looks that way. Somewhat aloof but sociable the roundhouse cat is actually one of two. A roundhouse would seem incomplete with... (more)

NS 1000 still has its red / white / blue nose stripes in this photo.

In front of the SNIM workshop in Nouadhibou we can see american built diesel power from left to right: GPL-15T BB # 203, BB # 201, SD70ACS CC # 124, GPL-15T BB # 207, SDL40-2 CC # 110.

SDL40-2 locomotive CC # 119 of the SNIM in the workshop of Nouadhibou.

In front of the large SNIM workshop in Nouadhibou are the SDL40-2 CC # 114, # 110 and # 101. # 101 was the first american locomotive in Mauritania in 1981, before there were used locomotives of th... (more)

In Mauritania, all locomotives in use are equipped with hydraulically operated, lowerable sand plows, which are attached to the bogie and are located behind the permanently mounted normal plows. H... (more)

Driver of the "Train du Désert" on the GPL-15T BB # 207 of the SNIM on the journey from Choum to Zouérate. The inscriptions on the driver's desk are in French. The velocity is mostly a... (more)