The Denver Rock Island Railroad's 1083 (SW1500) shares the road with some heavy trucks as they drop off a box car to a client.

On the Santa Barbara Subdivision, a Herzog RUM, ( Rail Unloading Machine ), is on the rear of a northbound Rail Train ready to unload new replacement Ribbon Rail.

A Brandt R4 truck and a gondola with a Brandt OTM Tracker on top, pushes south to the siding in Ventura to clear for southbound Pacific Surfliner No. 774.

Did you ever wonder who so many concrete coaling towers remain in place, straddling busy main lines long after steam has disappeared from the rails? These structures were built from yards and yard... (more)

EXO 1211 has F59PH AMT 1342 leading four multilevel cars as it heads west on the south track of CN's Montreal Sub.

The second and last train of the day to arrive in downtown Montreal from Mascouche has dropped off its passengers and is temporarily heading west on CN's Montreal Sub. Soon it will back up towards... (more)

GREX 6011 leads a short tie train northbound on the former Delaware & Hudson mainline through Schenevus, NY on a bright May morning. The locomotive is listed on Georgetown Rail Equipment's site as... (more)

Trains On Trucks. For a variety of reasons, the delivery of Kawasaki USA built M9s for MTA LIRR from Lincoln, Nebraska, to Yonkers, New York has been shifted to trucks. On the afternoon of ... (more)

Battery installation short-line style... Park locomotive on a flat stretch of spur with little built-up roadbed, then grab a rubber-tired tractor with a front-end loader. The Southern Alabama (S... (more)

Rainy days on Cabin Creek Series... A pair of CSX ES44ACs runaround a set of empties in preparation for loading at Blackhawk's Tom's Fork loadout in the background on a dreary March 21, 201... (more)

Following a fairly minor derailment on the morning of March 17 the BNSF Railway contracted with Hulcher Services to rerail three diesels that hit the ties in Fullerton. The trailing engine, BNSF ... (more)

A Metro Rail work train is behind a Brandt truck as it is going to be moving from the Green Line (now the C Line) to the brand new Crenshaw Line, pulling Metro Rail's very first car, retired P865 ... (more)

A Metro Rail work train is behind a Brandt truck as it is going to be moving from the Green Line (now the C Line) to the brand new Crenshaw Line, pulling Metro Rail's very first car, retired P865 ... (more)

Don't Fear the Reaper

Having earlier removed the rail from the former Reading station at Southampton, PA, two front end loaders sit poised and ready for the next task at hand. The statio... (more)

That's a load of crap! On a beautiful winter's day, an afternoon run to the Willow Springs drying fields is made by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. SW1 #3, closing ... (more)