Union Pacific GP9 No. 195 switches the yard near UP’s car shops in Omaha, Nebraska, in June 1981. Mixed in the freight cars in the background are three former Rock Island bay-window cabooses rec... (more)

Several EMD locomotives in the middle of shop time, including two SD70Ms, sit in front of the Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 8, 2014.

Reprofiling wheels. Taken with permission.

A yard crew brings a Northeast Regional set from the station to the yard in the wee hours of the morning while the rest of the city sleeps. Photo taken with protection and PPE on railroad propert... (more)

Union Pacific EMD SD40-2 No. 3172 gets some maintenance work done in the large locomotive shop at North Platte, Nebraska, on May 4, 2011.

Pit stop for maintenance works (axle replacement).

An assortment of Montana Rail Link locomotives are in various states of repair, being stripped for parts, or being stored in the railroad’s Livingston Shops on May 7, 2012. Up front is former Cl... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD SD45 (rebuilt and labeled an SD45-2) No. 315 and GP9 No. 123 are stored inside the backshop of MRL’s Livingston Shops on May 7, 2012.

Venerable SW-1 number 33 undergoes work to its draft gear in the Cloquet Terminal's shop. I like the new Radio Flyer wagon used by the machinist to haul tools and parts around.

On this late summer Tuesday, Selkirk Yard features a wide variety of power, per usual. Besides the normal collection of CSX motors, a BNSF GEVO can be seen as well as a less common visitor: a swi... (more)

Rows of stored SD9043MACs sit idle at UP's massive Bailey Yard, seen from the Golden Spike Tower. They may be on the sidelines for now, but the non-stop work of the world's largest freight classi... (more)

After Union Pacific's Provo roundhouse was dismantled in the late 1960s, the old car shop became a shelter for locomotive maintenance. GP30 No. 818 and SD40-2 No. 3164 share the service rail while... (more)

Romilly shop where this bogie of high speed train engine is in maintenance. The technician is verifies if the wheel have the correct diameter.

On the day we went to see Clinchfield 100 return to Erwin we found this operation unfolding. We could find no information but I would suspect a motor had "birdcaged" and needed to be ch... (more)

GM GT-22 under general repair.