A triple set of CP yard power (unfortunately with the barn on the wrong end!) idles on the pool 8 shop track between assignments in front of the former elevator.

Belt Railway of Chicago Alco C424s and EMD SW9s and SW1200s congregate on the west side of the locomotive shop at Clearing Yard in Bedford Park, Illinois, on December 5, 1987.

Resting in between potash dumping duties, heritage 7018 shows off some Canadian wildlife between the golden rodent painted on her face, and the Canada Goose taking a break on her rear cooling fans... (more)

Santa Fe bought 40 EMD F45s in mid-1968, mostly for freight service, although the last 20 had steam lines and could be found pulling passenger trains for a few years too. An F45 is essentially a c... (more)

The platforms at the fuel track in Union Pacific’s locomotive facility at North Yard in Denver, Colorado, are a slushy mess on April 15, 2013. Two workers discuss tasks, the weather, the railroa... (more)

A drop table operator checks the progress of a new axle being switched out on Union Pacific EMD SD70M No. 4831. The locomotive is having its fifth wheel set/motor assembly replaced at UP’s Kansa... (more)

When it’s snowing this hard, you better hang on during switching moves, as this hostler does at Union Pacific’s North Yard fuel track in Denver, Colorado, on April 15, 2013.

As fast as you can sweep or dig them out, the switches at Union Pacific’s North Yard fuel track will have filled back in during the next move. This storm dumped nearly a foot of snow in Denver, ... (more)

A showcase of different CP power rests between jobs in Westfort. Headed up by 2 barns, one sporting its former owners colors, the other wearing its new colors, but which is which?

Locomotives still have to be serviced, even when the weather is bad. A worker on the fuel tracks at Union Pacific locomotive facility at North Yard in Denver, Colorado, heads out into the falling ... (more)

During a wet spring snowstorm, Union Pacific power rests at the locomotive facility at North Yard in Denver, Colorado, on April 15, 2013.

A nice variety on this cool August morning at CN's Mission Yard finds an idle Cando GMD1 awaiting its next call to pitch in for elevator work while the CN triple set arrives with a cut of centerbe... (more)

Awaiting Assignment: A collection of several different locomotives (and former locomotives) is visible at Chicago's 18th Street locomotive facility. In this scene from June of 2022, the new... (more)

A very clean GT with decent paint sat outside the engine shop at Harrison Yard accompanied by several other locomotives of various paint schemes including a KCS grey ghost, BNSF fakebonnet, a few ... (more)

A southbound Huntsville and Madison County Railroad Authority train crosses Charlotte Drive in Huntsville, Alabama.