In Nov. 1985, the Rio Grande closed 23.69 miles of its Subdivision 7 mainline between Woods Cross and Roy. By 1988, the diamond was removed where Union Pacific's Syracuse Branch crossed the D&RGW ... (more)

BNSF 5329 leads UP 1982, NS 1069 and CSXT 347 eastbound with the Barstow,CA-Galesburg, IL manifest as it passes through Mesita, NM (Marmon on the railroad) and its beautiful red cliffs on 1/7/14.

BNSF 5329 leads UP 1982, NS 1069 and CSXT 347 eastbound with the Barstow,CA-Galesburg, IL manifest as it passes through Laguna, NM on 1/7/14.

Westbound on the Pokey mainline, high priority container train, NS I3Q rolls through downtown Welch on its dreary commute across the N&W mainline to Williamson from Bluefield. Welch represents one... (more)

GMD F7A(u) #9150-9179 (rebuilt 1972-1974) all retired by 1989.

New meets newest. One of CN's new GEs meets one of four recently purchased EMD SD70ACe-P6 demonstrators on the Missabe Subdivision. CN 8100 was running as a distributed unit on Q119 while its sist... (more)

As light snow falls, CN's newest purchase (EMD demo) is dead and drained as it moves north up Steelton Hill on train Q119, which is over 96 hours behind schedule due to the computer issues 8101 ha... (more)

A fairly elusive locomotive to me was finally out in the open for a shot today. I've run across this one a few times in the past but it was always either on the way to TTCI at Avondale, CO or EMD... (more)

Vermont Railway and Vermont Rail System are kicking off the Golden 50th Anniversary of the rail company - January 6, 1964 to January 6, 2014. In honor of the anniversary, VRS had GP40-2LW 311 pai... (more)

Vermont Railway and Vermont Rail System are kicking off the Golden 50th Anniversary of the rail company - January 6, 1964 to January 6, 2014. In honor of the anniversary, VRS had GP40-2LW 311 pai... (more)

Vermont Railway and Vermont Rail System are kicking off the Golden 50th Anniversary of the rail company - January 6, 1964 to January 6, 2014. In honor of the anniversary, VRS had GP40-2LW 311 pai... (more)

Steam touristic train "Tren de la Araucania" makes its arrival to Temuco in the evening. To the right seen in the old coal discharge bridge a passenger automotive AMZ-51 of Italian origin, decommi... (more)

A pair of Union Pacific SD70M's lead a freight train across the KCT at Union Station. The train is taking a trip "Around the World" as its called, requiring the train to make a full loop around th... (more)

What is it? Numberless 50-ton Atlas diesel, one of two built in the early 1940's for the U.S. Navy with side rods and radial couplers, was working for Georgetown Railroad at Georgetown, Texas on... (more)

A Davenport 390-hp Cooper-Bessemer 45-toner --- only nine of them ever built for the U.S. Army in 1942. All of them wound up in private service as this No. 503 working for Texas Construction Mat... (more)