Dupo Deadline: a quartet of problematic SD9043MAC units await disposition, likely to nearby Metro East Industries, at the former Missouri Pacific Yard in Dupo, IL

Chicago & North Western locomotives await assignment at the railroad’s engine facility at Proviso, Illinois, on September 13, 1987. C&NW’s Proviso Yard was the railroad’s major yard in the C... (more)

Wisconsin Central EMD GP40 No. 3006 is in the railroad’s locomotive shop at Shops Yard in North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on September 26, 1992. On the left is Southern Pacific GP9r No. 3373 await... (more)

Amtrak EMD F40PH No. 260 gets a foamy bath inside the wash building at Amtrak’s locomotive facility in Chicago, Illinois, on February 22, 1992.

Denver & Rio Grande T-12 No. 168 gets serviced at Chama, New Mexico, on the evening of August 28, 2021. After service on Rio Grande for 55 years, the ten-wheeler spent 1938 to 2016 in Antlers Park... (more)

Built in 1874 by the Rio Grande, the shops and yard at Burnham, located a couple of miles south of downtown Denver, Colorado, were the main shop facilities for the railroad. In this later view on ... (more)

G&W's Chattooga & Chickamauga Railway GP9 Nº 1700 is sitting cold in the stub-end track at Holiman Yard in Lafayette, GA on a quiet Sunday evening. The former Milwaukee Road GP9 has been placed i... (more)

Looking straight down on the dynamic brake fans of Wisconsin Central EMD SD45 No. 6593 at the locomotive facility at Shops Yard at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on April 5, 1996.

Fresh out of a full overhaul and rebuild, NYA 151 poses in Morris Park Yard, in for a new traction motor.

Behind Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande Burnham Shops sits UP EMD SD60M No. 2328 on the night of December 9, 2015. The building behind is the main backshop, and the structure on the left and as... (more)

Comet I Takeover: Gladstone service this weekend has been overtaken mostly by classic Pullman-Standard Comet I equipment hauled by diesels due to overhead wire work. These cars were purchas... (more)

Resting on the Crest: A CSX empty ethanol train sits on the Garden State Secondary on top of a crest in Carteret. The train came loaded from Proviso, IL as CSX K648 and would depart 2 days ... (more)

one of the best highlight in my opinion as far as equipment being preserved is this Fairbanks-Morse TVA H16-66 F3060. A long time resident of the Tennessee Valley Authority Plant Gallatin, this is... (more)

Comarrow: A train sits at Hoboken Terminal after having finished a run east from points west. The cab car was repurposed by NJ Transit from St. Louis Rail Car Company Penn Central Arrow I E... (more)

The power of former NS 48A (future NS 49A) rests in the sun at Ardent Mills. All three engines are rare birds for these parts. The first two engines are SD70ACU rebuilds NS 7297 and NS 7278 (forme... (more)