Southbound Amtrak Regional train arriving at New Carrollton, MD Amtrak/MARC station on a very warm and dry late October afternoon
Illinois & Midland RS 1325 # 30 may need all the friends it can gather, since it is one of only two ever built by EMD. The Chicago & Illinois Midland owned two RS1325's, 30 and 31 are still in ser... (more)
Leaving the crew change in Clinton behind, the M-PRCB, with a former C&NW SD40-2 in charge, heads west into Iowa. An eastbound coal load with a DPU is just arriving in town.
ATSF sent this beauty to EMD LaGrange as its representative for the 50th Anniversary celebration of the EMD FT103 demonstration tour. The 101 was one of the first two engines to be repainted into ... (more)
ATSF 543, a Fairbanks-Morse H12-44TS, was once a switcher for Santa Fe's Dearborn Station in Chicago. Only three of these locomotives were ever made, and this is the only survivor, rusting away on... (more)
The 2pm Whippany Railway Museum Easter Bunny Train has just crossed Ridgedale Avenue and climbs the grade to the top of the Whippany Line.
One of the very select few patched CNW SD40-2s leads a southbound manifest through Deval. 3028's nose patch in nicely peeling off, revealing the CNW underneath.
MVPPR with a CNW patch at the east end of Rodell Siding.
Westbound TP&W train approaches Burnside, IL on its way to Keokuk.
"Rare and rarer", Chicago & Illinois Midland RS1325 #30 on loan to KJRY with ex CNW HE15 cCummins reengined GP7, at La Harpe, IL.
The RDS-15 was nicknamed the "alligator" for its long snout. Slide is Kodachrome ASA 10.
SWPC (aka Mojave Northern) H20-44 408 (ex-66, ex-UP 1366, nee-FM demonstrator 2000) hauls a train of empties out to the quarry, east of I-15 and the city of Victorville in the Mojave Desert.
A look at one of the many "endangered species" on the CN. WC units are disappearing day by day.
