Stranded and abandoned for approximately a year due to a derailment which led to an embargo of the Stanbridge Subdivision in 2013, MMA 8583 (nee LMX 8583) has recently been cut up for scrap at ... (more)

Snow Squall Shifting

Norfolk Southern keeps a couple of ex-Reading SW1001s on the roster, at least two of which hang around Altoona for use as the shop goat. Here we find the regul... (more)

Long hood forward. ALP-45DP AMT 1369 is unusually running long hood forward as it heads west on CN's Montreal Sub with multilevel coach AMT 3002 in tow. It will run this way for about 7.5 m... (more)

Uncommon flatcar loads are heading west through La Porte Indiana. Photo by Jeff Stupar.

A true heritage unit with a special dedication. Pete Grosso began his Amtrak career in 1994 and worked his way up through several crafts, ranging from servicing toilets, to working in K To... (more)

The MOW crew is working on the South Shore Line catenary system in September 1983.

BNSF snow dozer 940027 clears the mainline through Cloquet.

Here is a view showing the FEC derailment shortly after it happened. The FEC 419 remained on the tracks, but the FEC 433 rolled over on its side as the train was coming through the switch at the ... (more)

Santa Fe 3751 has been split in two (the engine and tender, that is) as the San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society prepares to embark on the locomotive's second "1472" boiler inspection in loc... (more)

Canadian Pacific job HS12 switches the Duluth port terminal while the Clyde S VanEnkevort and Edwin H Gott await the start of the 2018 shipping season.

It is going to be a long day as FEC crews look over the damage after FEC train 226 north derailed coming out of the north end of the Pineda siding. FEC 433 is on its side, while FEC 413 remained o... (more)

Heading up the High Line
Copper Basin Railway’s Smelter Job powered by EMD GP39 No. 401 pushes ore cars up the hill out of Hayden Junction to the Arsarco Smelter complex at Hayden, Arizo... (more)

Copper Basin Railway engineer Aaron Nichols runs EMD GP39 No. 401 on the Smelter Job up the hill out of Hayden Junction to the Arsarco Smelter complex at Hayden, Arizona, on the morning of April 2... (more)

Nevada Northern Railway’s official machine shop cat, lovingly named “Dirt”, will rest comfortably over the next few evenings while locomotives #40 and #93 cool down inside the confines of the shop... (more)

Nevada Northern Railway’s two classic steam engines, # 40 and # 93, pose with conductor Con on the foot boards during the second weekend of the 2018 Winter Photo Shoot events. Locomotive # 93 is f... (more)