There is no time for paint! The new Ferromex locomotives are already in service after being delivered by Wabtec. It's neat to see these engines nicknamed "ghosts" in this important date... (more)

I love the smell of fresh paint in the afternoon.

This train on the RER C line between Montigny-Beauchamp and Invalides crosses the Seine on the Rouelle bridge

Outside the small Electro-Motive shop in Union Pacific's Marshalltown Yard were four of UP's SD70ACe-T4 locomotives: 3030, 3089, 3015 and (coupled behind 3015) 3050. On the other side of this sh... (more)

Rolling southbound along Rincon Beach on the Santa Barbara Subdivision, the Guadalupe local with AC4400CW no. 7146 leads the local along the RV beach parking area in Ventura.

On July 2, 1978, on the Santa Fe's Second District, Valley Division, (milepost 1184.4, between Gately and Rheem) vandals removed the lock off the east switch at Bethlehem Steel and lined the switc... (more)

A BNSF manifest pouring it on as it climbs uphill from East Glacier Park on the BNSF Hi-Line. This is one of my favorite locations for the obvious beauty, but also for the fact that coffee and do... (more)

D&H Delaware & Hudson 18, PA4 at the Delaware & Hudson Colonie shops, Watervliet, New York. September 12, 1978. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Sometimes the photographer is the designer too... nearly a year's worth of work is finally unveiled in Metro-North's Employee Tribute Locomotive #214. In August of 2023 I was tasked with coming up... (more)

UP 8111 leads a UP stacker west as it splits the Great Salt Lake across the former SP Lucin Cutoff.

A single CN Unit from an E251 job sits just outside the IHB GIBSON Roundhouse. The Roundhouse was built in 1906 by the CI&S Railroad. Unfortunately the Roundhouse doesn't see the level of activity... (more)

US Borax SW1 #7171

I-167 early morning derailment with 31 cars on the ground with many were loaded auto racks making it a costly derailment estimated to be at least 30 million so far.

Amtrak ASEA X995, with Amtraks testing of the Swedish unit over. The fate is sealed for the GG-1., The pans have been removed, and its ready for its return trip to Sweden and sits on a siding at P... (more)

The Iowa Northern ran a CN turnout out of Butler to deliver a bunch of cars for the CN. The crew now picks up the few cars the CN had ready for them. Rare sight at Waterloo today as tons of power ... (more)