Workers in Union Pacific’s De Soto, Missouri, car shop break down a freight car truck to individual components for rebuilding on September 29, 2011. Here they are removing the springs before sep... (more)

CSX W001-13 glides around the curve just south of the Walnut Industrial Park just south of Dalton, GA on the CSX Western & Atlantic Sub (WA) (MP-96.0 Dalton). The Geometry train is heading south a... (more)

"NYCT Portable Roadbed Cleaner at 14th" A NYCT work train sits at 14th Street Union Square on the IRT Lexington Ave Line as part of a portable roadbed cleaner which works with a ... (more)

The "Clinchfield 676" dwarfs the Union Pacific support truck as the sparks fly from minor surgery taking place on the running board. The giant locomotive had sideswiped some coal hopper... (more)

Workin' On The Railroad Creeping crossing over the NS controlled NS/CSX Diamond at 23rd Street (MP WA-137.3/J-149.9 23rd St.) is the loaded ballast train CSX C025-13 making it's ... (more)

Workin' On The Railroad Creeping crossing over the NS controlled NS/CSX Diamond at 23rd Street (MP WA-137.3/J-149.9 23rd St.) is the loaded ballast train CSX C025-13 making it's ... (more)

Engineer Mel Baughman mugs for the camera from the cab of Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5349 at East Carbon, Utah, on February 5, 2004. Around Helper, these sullied, weary, black locomotives parked o... (more)

Goodbye, Mel
Railroading and I lost a friend last week. Mel Baughman was born in Rifle, Colorado, on November 2, 1948, and began working for the Rio Grande in 1967, subsequently becoming... (more)

Norfolk Southern eastbound intermodal train 202 is coming into Stevenson, AL. The train is about to utilize trackage rights over CSX from here to Wauhatcie, TN.

On the morning of April 20, 2017, a crew prepares Copper Basin Railway water car No. 0011 for a trip just west of Hayden, Arizona, were it will be used to spray down a dusty access road leading to... (more)

L.S. “Jake” Jacobson, President and Chief Operating Officer of Copper Basin Railway, inspects the main line to Florence and Magma just east of Price, Arizona, using the company’s GMC Suburba... (more)

The final end is approaching for ex CP Rail M-636 #4723 as the 16-251E engine block is being cut up.

Sparks fly as repairs are made to the 0-4-0's pilot.

A Loram Shoulder Ballast Cleaner works the CN Rainy Sub main slowly through Virginia, MN slogging away at steady 1.5 M.P.H. moving up to 2,000 tons per hours of material as one crewman from Loram ... (more)

With the bulk of the car knocking is complete, the lone SD40-2 BNSF 1825 is getting ready to make the shovel move, and belt pack operator will cut the 2 bay hopper on the fly, heading to designate... (more)