C&NW 4160 (former Rock Island 4506) passing the 1908 Chicago Railways Company datestone from the West Shops complex in Chicago. There are several monuments to fallen flags at IRM.

The former Missouri & North Arkansas Railway depot in Eureka Springs is now home to the Eureka Springs & North Arkansas Railway, which runs a little orange GE 25-tonner and a single coach on short... (more)

USSC 6324, a former Cotton Belt SD45T-2 rebuilt to SD40-2 standards, is picking up cars just outside the mill at Clewiston before heading to Fort Pierce.

Former Florida East Coast Tavern-Lounge-Observation No. 6607 "Bay Biscane" brings up the rear of the Sugar Express on a beautiful evening in Florida. The car was built by Budd in 1939 a... (more)

Santa Fe 2-8-0 811 was built by Baldwin in 1901 as a Vauclain Compound. Heavily modified over the years, it was simplified in 1912 and converted to an oil burner in 1923, but surprisingly never h... (more)

Magma Arizona 2-8-0 No. 5 is now "CT&C 555" and is displayed at the Galveston Railroad Museum (Center for Transportation & Commerce) at the former AT&SF station. In the 1980s, 555 gave... (more)

Frisco 4501 was built for the St. Louis - San Francisco Railway (better known as the Frisco) by Baldwin in 1942. It was delivered wearing this special scheme of zephyr blue, gray, and white to pu... (more)

The last two unpatched D&RGW tunnel motors (DRGW 5390 and 5371, sandwiched between a pair of UP SD40-2s) throttle up as they roll into Wellington, Utah, with the "Dirt Train" in February... (more)

US Sugar 148 rolls into the sunset at Liberty Point near Clewiston, Florida. This was a common sight in the 1950s that is also now also common in the 21st Century thanks to the efforts of Operati... (more)

A former Cotton Belt SD45T-2 (rebuilt as an SD40-2) leads the Sebring Turn southbound near Venus, Florida. Big power and 40 mph running feels more like a Class II than a short line!

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

Great Northern 325 leads a train of GN passenger equipment across the St. Croix River (and the Minnesota-Wisconsin state line) near Osceola, Wisconsin. This section of the former Soo Line that ra... (more)

Yes, I broke all the railfan photography rules. I cut off the train. The rods are up. I overexposed the headlight (ISO 12,800 will do that). But what a magnificent sight 148 is blasting throug... (more)

Ex-Florida East Coast 4-6-2 148 - restored to its 1950s US Sugar paint scheme for the weekend - rolls through the cane fields near Miami Locks with a photo special.

EMD dynamic brake components stored at Silvis. Eventually, some of them will be used by National Railway Equipment to rebuild locomotives inside the former Rock Island backshop.