Genesee And Wyoming’s First Diesel. Genesee & Wyoming Inc. Railroad 20 is a General Electric 80 ton centercab locomotive, and was the first diesel-electric locomotive owned by the New Yor... (more)

IRM #3 was originally built for Dow Chemical Company and later used as a switcher for Eli Lilly. IRM #3 and the Nickel Plate caboose await their next assignment.

So many GE critters are custom in some way. These little locomotives are narrow, not narrow gauge, just narrow. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

The last run of the day for the Arcade and Attica Christmas Train returns to Arcade on Black Friday.

VALE 0902 leads a train of old pullman coaches south on the former New Haven valley line along the Connecticut River.

This General Electric 80 Ton diesel was built in July 1940 by General Electric as United States Navy 65-00430, working in San Diego CA. In the 1960s it was sold to Pfizer, which renumbered it 2 a... (more)

Valley Railroad's 80-Ton 0901 in the Essex Yard.

Originally US Army, later Johnson Co. Industrial Railroad, slide labelled "Midwest Historical Society" but unable to find this organization in KS and later history of locomotive is unkno... (more)

The navy seems to like big numbers and yellow as evidenced by this unit sitting in the sun.

Modern version. Probably in Beckville. Photo by Dave Petke, from my collection.

Handy Dandy Railroad 310 brings a train of passengers through the last turn and onto the home stretch of their mile and a half fully contained railroad at Denton Farmmpark in North Carolina. The l... (more)

The Kohler plant switcher (Kohler #1?) sorts some cars to be interchanged with the C&NW at Kohler, WI. in September of 1989. This elusive GE 80 tonner still operates today, getting cars from the U... (more)

New Hope Valley's 1545 Santa train departs Bonsal on the former NS branch to Durham in the late evening.

Jackass & Western is a real rail operation for the Jackass Flats atomic testing basin at Nevada National Security Site. This link has many details about L-3: https://www.nnss.gov/docs/fact_shee... (more)

US Air Force crew out of Shaw Air Force Base brings a short train to the interchange with CSX in Sumter, South Carolina back in 2012. I had been trying to get a shot of this train for six years an... (more)