A former Santa Fe GP7 that now works for Canton Railroad in Baltimore Md is seen at 07:52 as it goes about it's chores

Two of SP's venerable SD7's, although forty years old, were still at work for their original owner at the East end of the Roseville yard.

Illinois Terminal Flexi-coil trucked SW1200 1206 rests adjacent to the dilapitated, but still in use, interurban carbarn in Springfield, IL.

Chicago and Illinois Western SW7 102 works the Ridgely Yard in Springfield, IL. C&IW was a Chicago-area shortline which fell under the control of the Illinois Central. This SW7, identified by on... (more)

Elderly EJ&E Baldwin VO1000 #483 drifts light back into the yard at Joliet, IL, on a late December day.

A pair of Geeps are looking good in the snow, as they head back into the Eola Yard, to pick up another cut of cars.

EJ&E 656 is in charge of switching out the east end today, as it heads back to pick up its next set of cars.

It's only a few months into the Conrail merger and this ex EL pup has yet to be renumbered, and it is still working in former EL territory. A former Erie searchlight signal looms above.

CN 7033 leads a cut of cars out of the yard. While I'd much rather have a SW1200 doing the work, a GP9 in 2009 is hard to resist.

A trio of BNSF units are at Western Avenue doing yard chores just prior to sunset.

GP30m 4253 in B&O sunburst scheme and a Chessie System bay-window caboose rest under the coaling tower at CSX's Sandy Hook Yard in Lynchburg, VA.

What was once an everyday occurance not even a year ago is now just a memory. A pair of classic switchers switch out the EJ&E yard. R.I.P.

A yard crew with a "geep sandwich" trundles slowly back north on the ARR mainline. They have a mixed consist of equipment from local industries off the APU Spur and the adjacent mainline. This l... (more)

An ARR geep creeps carefully up the back streets of Anchorage en route to deliver three gondolas for scrap loading. She is shoving across Orca St. and past Alaska Mill and Feed which is a railroa... (more)

Yes, I know I post a lot of photos from this location. But can you blame me? I just find this to be one of the most fascinating piece of trackage anywhere. Side of the road running, light rail,... (more)