The Nebraska Zephyr heads under the poles and wires along the IRM mainline in rural Illinois.

The "Silver Pilot" departs Union with an exclusive dinner train for the showcase weekend, as part of an all night event.

CB&Q E5 9911-A leads the Nebraska Zephyr East on a night run at IRM. In celebration of the museum's 70th anniversary, they pulled a all-nighter and ran trains the entire night from 9/16 into 9/17.

“Five Day Work Week”
Four of the five F9PHs rostered by the Maryland Rail Commuter Service (MARC) are laying over for the weekend in the yard at Brunswick, late in the afterno... (more)

A New Lease On Life. The Woodstown Central Railroad announced on Friday, September 15, 2023, that it has secured the lease of former Reading FP7 902 (EMD, 5/1950) from the Reading Company T... (more)

Sonora Baja California EMD F7A 2101 gets looked after at the pit in Benjamin Hill Sonora in April 1979

For one day, to join N&W #611's return to the rails, famed #501 was dressed to play the part of an ACL locomotive on loan to the Norfolk & Western, replicating the 1958-59 period where such a thin... (more)

With no passenger duties to fulfill this unit is leading an EB freight and the herald indicates the Barring era. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection. Wouldn't I love to have that cast ... (more)

In the pre-Barringer paint scheme a SB train is rattling along on the less than great rail, probably near Greenville. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

Sometime in the late 1960s a couple of units in the original "Southern Belle" scheme share duties. KCS 25 was a "rebuild" of an E6A which had apparently been wrecked. As I un... (more)

In UP territory this set of power was for an unknown train. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

A pair of EMD F-units, belonging to Pioneer Railroad Equipment Company, sit in the engine facility in Gettysburg PA. PREX F7A 402 was built in December 1949, and is the former Keokuk Junction Rai... (more)

In a panned photograph, LTV Mining (former Erie Mining Company) EMD F9A No 4212 leads an empty ore train west through Cramer, Minnesota, on September 24, 1994.

10 years before the paint scheme reappeared, somewhat, on CSXT's fleet, this former CSXT motor wore the whole coat. It now lives on restored as CRR 800.

CaterParrott Railnet's E8 wears a Georgia Railroad nose herald for a few minutes, showing us what a GARR E8 might have looked like.