Built in Jan 1963, this Chessie System SD18 has been stuck on the CKIN property for years... It was moved up to Wellsboro 2006 from the Hoosier Valley Railway Museum, but never left the Chesapeake... (more)

Chessie paint lives in 2011! The much photographed unit has been moved numerous times between LaCrosse, Wellsboro, and Malden. For a few weeks now it sits with what I believe is a HVRM boxcar, wit... (more)

Want to have some fun, get your head into the game? Try changing a out a piston on an Alco 251-12. Again we need to thank the guys out here sweatin' and cussin' and doing the dirty tedious work ... (more)

Just a few miles from home rails this old locomotive is getting some TLC. I hope she ends up looking as good as the one behind it.

Hey, when you go out to watch that operating vintage locomotive always remember these guys who sweated and toiled in obscurity barring over an engine and replacing a power assembly to allow you to... (more)

Not much is left of Vintage Locomotives Inc. SD18 #7310 as it is being torched at the Southern Appalachia Rail Museum facility. VLIX 7310 began life as C&O 1810 and then 7310 until it was sold off... (more)

An Oglebay Norton RS3 sits at the Southern Appalachia Rail Museum in Oak Ridge, TN.

Former C&O unit still displays her Chessie cat logo well.

VLIX 9009 started life as Detroit Edison 009 in 1972.

Even though Conrail ceased to exist as of 1999, this loco didn't get the message. She is still dressed in her Conrail Blues and moves hopper cars at Oneal Quarry.

The Secret City Scenic excursion train makes it way through the grounds of the former K-25 complex, the site where uranium was enriched for the A-Bombs of World War II. The trailing unit is a for... (more)

VLIX 2064 goes along for the ride on the back of the Secret City Excursion Train, on the return trip it will be in the lead since there is nowhere to turn the train when it gets to Blair.

One of the SARM's vintage alcos rumbles across Poplar Creek under a clear fall sky.