With 1223 the only one that ever sees any kind of local regular duty these days, a five-pack of iron ore dust colored ex-Reserve Mining fleet of SD9s is still hanging on in the U.P. of Michigan at... (more)

Cabooses are Acceptable

What the sign lacks in spelling and grammar is more than made up for in meaning and intensity. I wonder where he got that guard rail!

After an absence of over 60 years, streetcars have returned to the streets of Milwaukee. Beginning with its first run on November 2, 2018, a 2.1-mile route from Milwaukee’s Intermodal Station th... (more)

A young boy, enjoying the “fire pole” in the middle of the car, and his mom wait for a brand new “The Hop” streetcar to depart Burns Commons stop at the Lower East Side of Milwaukee, Wisco... (more)

A streetcar curves off of W. St. Paul Avenue and heads onto Vel R. Phillips Avenue (N. 4th Street) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on November 12, 2018. After an absence of over 60 years, streetcars have... (more)

Chicago Transit Authority car No. 3450 is clattering across the diamonds on the elevated “L” rapid transit railway above Lake and Wells Street on November 8, 2018. This junction is still consi... (more)

Passenger Service to Allentown, Pennsylvania?

A special move of a train of George Hart’s ex-reading passenger cars arrives in the former CNJ yard in Allentown, Pennsylvania. I d... (more)

Putting the “motor” in Tunnel Motor! GEXR 3806 is seen through the lower air intakes of no. 3054, an ex-Cotton Belt EMD SD45T-2.

It’s 11:45 a.m. and we’re running a couple hours late, meeting and passing through plenty of BNSF freight traffic in Iowa aboard Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr on November 7, 2018. Cru... (more)

A few loads of Liebeherr construction equipment heading west on CN 305.

Metra EMD SW1200 No. 3 moves two newly-acquired EMD F59PHI locomotives on the north end of Metra’s coach yard south of Chicago Union Station on November 8, 2018. METX Nos. 73 and 77 are two of 2... (more)

How to get a GP15 back on track at the hump in Roseville

At Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, a welder (boilermaker by trade) carefully builds new lower pilot assemblies for the railroad’s SD40N rebuild program on... (more)

Close-up view of Santa Fe 2862 after the major derailment involving three trains. The SF 2862 east plowed into another eastbound waiting at Mountainair, NM for an approaching westbound hotshot. Th... (more)

Two painters apply the Scotchlite striping to the side sill of Union Pacific GE ES44AC No. 5401 during a repainting in the paint shop at the railroad’s Downing B. Jenks Shop in North Little Rock... (more)