The year 2026 will be the United States Semiquincentennial (also called the Bisesquicentennial, the Sestercentennial, America250 or the Quarter Millennium) will be the 250th anniversary of the Uni... (more)

This locomotive was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in June 1963 as Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe GP30 1281, later renumbered ... (more)

Local power sits in the BNSF yard in Victorville. In the foreground is ES44C4 7165 (teamed with ES44DC 732-something … that fourth digit was obscured). This power is assigned to BNSF Local R-C... (more)

The truck that delivered OCTA S700 104 to Santa Ana has dropped part of the trailer and pulled forward with the tractor and the wheeled-portion of the trailer, leaving the section that carries the... (more)

Off display and back in the old Central Pacific Shop complex (much of it built in 1968) where the California State Railroad Museum stores and works on a variety of equipment in their collection, i... (more)

In Autumn of 2014, the Plymouth & Lincoln Railroad, operator of the Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad, acquired SW1000 1012 from locomotive dealer Larry's Truck Electric. (This switcher is ex-LTEX 10... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 572 departs the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center after meeting northbound Surfliner 573 there. Amtrak Dash 8-32BWH 509 (one of the 20 diesels deliv... (more)

At 7:15, just after sunrise following a snowfall the previous evening, Connecticut DOT train 6506 rolls into the Metro-North Harlem-125th Street Station on its way from Manhattan's Grand Central T... (more)

The Red Car Trolley is a meter gauge (3 ft 3+3?8 in) tramway and transportation attraction at Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. Construction began on Jan... (more)

It Doesn’t Look Like a GP30 From This Angle!

Built in March 1963 as Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe GP30 1257. The Santa Fe later renumbered it to ATSF 3257 and, later still... (more)

Canadian National Railway Dash 8-40CM 2408 was built by General Electric in February 1990. (CN Woodcrest Locomotive Shops, Homewood, Illinois – September 30, 2018) Photographed on railroad ... (more)

There are a lot of interesting locomotives at Amtrak's Wilmington Maintenance Facility: Stored HHP-8s (as well as a single GE 80-ton and a rebuilt SW9 [now called an SW1000]), brand-new ALC-42 di... (more)

There is a short spur just west of the Fullerton Transportation Center, used occasionally to store Maintenance-of-Way equipment. Curiously, on this late August day, two locomotives were parked he... (more)

An RTD-Denver A Line train, with Silverliner V 4035 leading, arrives at the city’s 61st & Peña Station, not far from the Denver International Airport. These electric trains connect DIA with Un... (more)

The Iowa Traction Railway Company (reporting mark IATR) is a class III common carrier shortline railroad, operating 10.4 miles (16.7 km) of track connecting Mason City and Clear Lake, Iowa. Howev... (more)