WNYP 426 leads a fairly long westbound out of the yard at Olean behind a pair of four-axle Alcos.

A dramatic sky is overhead as uncommonly two trains are in Lachine IMS Yard simultaneously. At left CPKC 112 is waiting for CPKC 119 to finish its lift before heading to St-Luc Yard with its power... (more)

Built by the American Locomotive Company in July 1951 for the United States Department of Energy (DOE 39-5309), this RS-1 was later sold to DuPont, which numbered it DUPX 107. In 2015 it was loca... (more)

CPKC 112 has autoracks up front (and unusually, more on the tail end) as it enters Lachine IMS Yard.

As a huge coal train is entirely over the top of the grade its large helper set is still attached, which is somewhat unusual. Looks like the conductor is stepping down with his grip. As the coal... (more)

Several Union Pacific locomotives line the tracks of UP’s large North Platte Diesel Shop at Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, on May 4, 2011.

BNSF 6111 sits with "Stu's Caboose", a heritage caboose that typically is found in use as a shoving platform in Seattle, in the Vancouver Yard. The pair were here for a car show event th... (more)

Early morning fog has lifted enough to see action at Selkirk.

An eastbound local behind HLCX 3835 departs Twin Falls in the early morning.

The RS70 is seen slowly going over the River Road crossing on the Calverton Spur on their way to spot and pull Eastern Fence. The River Road crossing is the only gated crossing on the branch. Freq... (more)

Waiting for maintenance of way to finish up ahead, a former PC, ex CR "retread" idles away. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

A lot of power on a short train.

It's a rainy morning at BNSF's North Yard in Fort Worth, Texas as a BNSF road local breaks down and yards their train. On the head end were three freshly rebuilt Union Pacific AC44CWM's with AC600... (more)

Conrail NB-39 works Stone Container on the Ford Lead in Teterboro, NJ. NB-39 was the regular relief for the OI-31 crew which brought this job up to the Pascack Valley Line from Oak Island Yard ev... (more)

Sometime in the late 1960s a couple of units in the original "Southern Belle" scheme share duties. KCS 25 was a "rebuild" of an E6A which had apparently been wrecked. As I un... (more)