NPBL borrowed an EMD demo paint scheme from EMD and IHMO they did pretty well. Check out those stack covers. No old green beans cans for these guys. Photo by Tom Sink. From my collection.

This beautiful 1934 Buick inspection car is displayed indoors with a number of CPR artifacts at the Western Development Museum in Moose Jaw.

An Operation Red Block caboose brings up the back end of northbound Q504 as it departs Louisville's Osborn yard.

A new plow that was created from SD70MAC 9528 sits in the yard at Dilworth, MN. I'm not sure if it's meant to be self-propelled or needs to be pushed by a separate locomotive, but it certainly loo... (more)

A remnant of the curious Henderson Mine Railroad still rests at Henderson Mill. The Mine was opened in 1976, tunneling some 15 miles under the Continental Divide to (underground) near Empire CO. ... (more)

A Loram rail grinder makes its way across the Tazewell & Peoria to reach Iowa Interstate trackage and its trip to Silvis, Illinois for storage.

“Geometry & Coke Zero”

On the morning of October 4th, 2025, Metro-North Railroad’s self-propelled Engineering Inspection Vehicle “IC 2020” and CTrail GE P40BH 6701 sit on di... (more)

A Vossloh G 2000BB engine on display at the Bochum Dahlhausen Railway Museum.

Two of Iowa Traction Railway Company's electric-powered 50-Ton Steeplecab locomotives …

IATR 54, built in 1923 by General Electric; has just arrived and the crew has pulled down it t... (more)

Former Manitoba Hydro locomotive 857 "Snoopy" sits outside the CP rail station in Portage, coupled up to CP caboose 434560. I'm unsure of the reporting mark so I went with the closest... (more)

A Loram rail grinder deadheads westward to Barstow as it passes through Hackberry.

Rebuilt using EMD switcher frame and trucks and using a Caterpillar 3512 prime mover with a Kato generator. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

The EMD Model 40 was a diesel-electric industrial locomotive built by Electro-Motive Corporation (EMC), and its corporate successor, General Motors' Electro-Motive Division (EMD) between August 19... (more)

The snow fighting crew from Pontresina had an unscheduled task in Ospizio Bernina, highest station of the Rhaetian Railway network on 2253 meter a.s.l., in the afternoon of this day. "Schalke... (more)

"New Haven Battery Shunter"

On the rainy afternoon of December 3rd, 2023, the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT)'s NITEQ 7000-E remote controlled electric battery shunte... (more)