Three years have passed since Rock Island's abandonment, but the trustee's decrepit GP18 - bent frame and all - is still shuttling up and down the mainline tying up loose ends. On this afternoon,... (more)

That others may live..... Running a fleet of 90+ year-old steam engines that have to work just as hard each day as they ever did back in the steam era is a very difficult endeavor to sustai... (more)

It was 105 degrees on this nice arid sunny day at the Orange Empire Railway Museum. I thought this classic Santa Fe "Foreman Car" was pretty neat.

Not exactly the most attractive specimen I've ever ran across...

The cab of a former Union Pacific SD90MAC sits at Mid America Car.

A former CNW plow sits in the weeds outside the RAILROAD MEMORIES MUSEUM in Spooner, WI. The museum is housed in the former Chicago & Northwestern Railway depot and has been transformed into a m... (more)

A 1935-built snow plow. CN 55400 is a snow plow preserved at the Railway Museum of Eastern Ontario in Smiths Falls, Ontario. It was built by National Steel Car in 1935 in Hamilton, Ontario ... (more)

An extended vision cupola CN caboose. CN 79274 is one of many cabooses preserved at the Railway Museum of Eastern Ontario in Smiths Falls, Ontario. This one was built in 1967 and is a moder... (more)

A Canadian Northern Ten-Wheeler. CN 1112 was built in 1912 by the Montreal Locomotive Works for the Canadian Northern Railway as CNOR 1112 and as a coal burner. During its CN career it woul... (more)

Once upon a time, this 1920 Porter was the regular power for excursions on the Wanamaker, Kempton and Southern. In fact, the railroad even built a tender for her so the crew didn't have to work a... (more)

Here's some more oddities in Middle River: ILSX 922, former Lake Terminal 1015, ILSX 1337, former CP 778, and a Soo Line flat car with various parts. This is one of two groups of storage equipme... (more)

August 2011 was the last time an SW1 puffed a blue cloud of smoke up the Red Clay Valley. On June 24th, 2014, 114 pulled it's first train since then and the following weekend marked it's first Hoc... (more)