BNSF 146 and BNSF 122 prepare to head back into the yard in San Diego to pick up another string of cars to switch. In the background is the the big United States Navy shipyard.

UP 8064 and UP 5026 push on the back of a long manifest train heading west into the Tucson yard.

It is still morning but it already above 90 degrees as UP 8139 waits for a crew to take a long auto rack train east into Tucson.

It is a beautiful morning as Union Pacific 7183 and Norfolk Southern 3610 accelerate a long doublestack train east out of the yard in Tucson, Arizona.

BNSF 8290 leads a manifest train north out of Phoenix, Arizona.

BNSF 1667 idles at the north end of the intermodal yard in Glendale, Arizona.

The distinctive nose of a former BN SD40-2 6361, now BNSF 1968.

After spending the night camped next to the Kelso depot, the first eastbound of the morning had a big surprise, DD40 UP 6936 on the point! The train has stopped to switch out cars in the small Kel... (more)

CSX 446 idles in the CSX yard in Augusta, Georgia.

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

This beautiful 4-6-2, number 631, was built in June 1928 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, for the Southern Pacific Railroad. According to the specifications listed on th... (more)

The classic front end view of a GP-30, this one owned by the Aiken Railroad.

A colorful line-up of old diesels sit at the Locomotive Specialist Facility in Waycross, Georgia. From left to right, IC 1439 (SW14), CSX 2215 (Road slug), Chicago Central 8190 (GP-10), NS 879 (RP... (more)

Former United State Sugar Corp 203 is going through the rebuild program at Locomotive Specialists, and will soon be repainted and emerge as LOSX 203. Photo taken with permission wearing all requir... (more)

Norfolk Southern 3462 waits patiently for a long CSX intermodal train with DPU 926 to clear the diamond so that it can continue to switch cars in the NS yard in Augusta, Georgia. Note: the photo w... (more)