Blue hour Saturday morning as Big Boy slumbers at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth after its run up BNSF from the Twin Cities.

With newly rebuilt AC44C6M locomotives being added to the roster with numbers in the 4000 series, the Norfolk Southern Executive units had to be renumbered and repainted. Here, in Altoona, the F ... (more)

The Mississippi River has caused alot of headaches in the Midwest with the railroads this spring. The river crested at Burlington, IA, (19 miles upstream) on 6-02 was the 3rd highest crest on reco... (more)

The early morning sun rises on a plethora of stored locomotives in the West Yard.

Apparently the Ex-Conrail GP8 at the grain elevator in Tamora, Nebraska needed a little help building air. The folks at the Co-Op strapped an air compressor up on the front pilot.

Looking deep into Thomasville Yard we find a former Seaboard Coast Line SD40-2, a Conrail bay window caboose, and a former Pennsylvania Jordan spreader. CSX 8044 has been working with the mainten... (more)

Getting a load out of Claremont Paper. As the cars got heavier and the engines more tired, it was sometimes necessary to use two locomotives to get up this grade and around this tight curve. It co... (more)

Not many things can make a UP Big Boy look small, but the Great Lakes vessel Joseph L Block sure does. The 4-8-8-4 was backing its train toward a wye in West Duluth as the Block unloaded limestone... (more)

EMD's first production SD45, GN 400 Hustle Muscle, is moved at BNSF's Belknap Street engine facility in Superior. The SD45 is being moved to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth. Amazingly,... (more)

While most rail aficionados were wooing over the newest additions to the Canadian Pacific roster, one of the first two heritage SD70ACU locomotives, CP 7010, quietly snuck a nice little “PR consis... (more)

Shortly after 0700 hrs, Baltimore County Fire Dispatch struck out Rescue Box 28-05 for the car vs train in the area of Rosedale Ave and Gilmore Ave, in Rosedale. Third Battalion career and volunte... (more)

A pair of colorful and interesting looking diamonds sit near the CSX / NS Diamonds at Crawford, Florida.

Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 leads Union Pacific No. 844 west across the Overland Route near Walcott, Wyo., on its way to Ogden, Utah, from Cheyenne, Wyo.

Paducah & Louisville's GP38-2 3810 and 3800 wait for a signal to proceed south to Osborn yard with the CSX transfer. In the foreground are party caboose used by patrons during the University of Lo... (more)

Canadian Pacific Railway’s first heritage SD70ACU, CP #7010, leads eastbound Vancouver, BC to Montreal, QC intermodal train 112-10 through the famous Morant’s Curve, east of Lake Louise, Alberta. ... (more)