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.

A handful of engines await assignments while idling on the shops in Jasper.

New CN AC44C6M 3337 awaits a pickup from M348's train at Jasper.

Florida Central's newly painted units in the SCL-inspired scheme await duty at Bartow.

F40PH #124 still soldiers for more than 40 years moving commuters between home and work.

Rio Grande and Missouri Pacific locomotives rest beneath the large grain elevator at Kansas City Southern’s Knoche Yard in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 8, 1985. Rio Grande utilized the KCS... (more)

Locomotives get serviced at the fuel track at Union Pacific’s North Yard in Denver, Colorado, on April 15, 2013. Amid the falling snow, an employee tries in vain to get a fuel reading on one of ... (more)

CN AC44C6M 3335 idles on the shop track in Jasper.

CN SD60s 5486 and 5468 idle in the yard at Swan Landing.

CCGX SD38-2M 5206 basks in the evening sun on the shop track in Jasper.

CN C40-8 2100 and KCSM AC4400CW 4510 idle on the shop tracks in Jasper.

A rare visitor to Jasper rests on the shop tracks waiting to assist a westbound later in the evening. Pretty safe to say, this has been the only time that a KCSM engine has been on this track.

It looks and feels more like winter on April 15, 2013, in front of North Yard tower at Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande facility in Denver, Colorado.

A Union Pacific fuel track employee trundles out into the heavily falling snow to his next assignment at UP’s North Yard locomotive facility on April 15, 2013.

Bandits
After a bankruptcy and long wait for a savior through merger, Milwaukee Road’s physical plant was not the best. This included the weathered paint on its locomotives. New owner ... (more)