Dozens of old locomotives sit unused at the east end of National Railway Equipment’s Silvis facility.
Back in September 2018, Metra hosted an Operation Lifesaver demonstration on their SWS line in Manhattan, IL. A Chevy Trailblazer was put on the tracks to show what would happen to a car if it was... (more)
Here’s what’s left of two storage buildings that caught fire at Amtrak’s Beech Grove shops around midnight on May 2nd, 2021. Luckily no one was injured.
Three Wisconsin & Calumet F7s sit at the Escanaba & Lake Superior’s roundhouse in Wells, Michigan. In the background are some other stored units, including a handful of Baldwins and SD9s.
EMDX SD90MAC-H #90 sits with an Oakway painted SD60 at the EMD LaGrange Plant in McCook, IL.
On May 1st, 1971, Amtrak’s first westbound Empire Builder flies through Duplainville, Wisconsin with a quartet of BN F units. This is the same train featured in Pentrex’s Empire Builders to Mi... (more)
One of the many locomotives at NRE Silvis is Metra E8A #521. The engine was originally built for the C&NW in 1951. After being used in commuter service for RTA and eventually Metra, the unit was s... (more)
An assortment of power sits at NRE Dixmoor waiting for an unknown future.
A variety of Canadian National power sits around CN’s Fond du Lac turntable waiting for an assignment. If you look closely you can even see a WC SW1500 inside the roundhouse.
All three of Nashville & Western’s B23-7s sit along Herman Street in Downtown Nashville. With newer GEs from the NERR on the property, RJ Corman has decided to put the old B23-7s up for sale.
A colorful assortment of locomotives sit at the Nashville & Eastern’s shops in Lebanon, Tennessee.
Many railfans watch as the infamous L-CHI105 shoves onto BNSF’s Chillicothe Subdivision before heading west towards Galesburg. Leading the train is GP39E number 2740, a former Burlington Norther... (more)
HLCX 6313, an SD40-2 on lease to the Wisconsin & Southern, sits as two WSOR jobs switch in Madison Yard on a cold January morning.
After shoving a southbound mixed freight up Byron Hill, IC 6250 and BLE 901 cross over the Fond du Lac River as they head back north towards Shops.
Y-JOL202 crosses the Rock Island at Joliet Union Station with a former Santa Fe SD40-2 leading the way.
