Every once in a while they bring out a ballast regulator to do some light cleaning. Most of the time the regulator helps clean up Truckee MOW Yard as the snow gets too heavy up on top. On this d... (more)

Employees at Locomotive Specialists begin to tape and cover over areas of LOSX 1369 so that it can be sprayed with a protective clear coat and have decals applied. The rebuilding of this locomoti... (more)

Following the return of a Rail Ramble to the Philadelphia area, Reading's T-1 No. 2124 would return lite to Reading. It turned on the wye at West Falls. Here, after a visit with towerman Joe Coult... (more)

Albany & Eastern EMD GP38AC No. 2001 gets some mechanical attention from a shop employee at the railroad’s locomotive facility at Lebanon, Oregon, on the morning of September 26, 2016.

On a hot day in August 1983, a Chicago & North Western track crew gets a lift on a ballast regulator heading south on the Belt Line approaching Burleigh Avenue in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. A freight w... (more)

Living his dream, Assistant Conductor Trujillo waves to the camera as his train, Amtrak's Southwest Chief slowly pulls away from the station platform in Lamy, NM.

After some maintenance in Union Pacific’s North Platte Diesel Shop, a worker carefully replaces a rooftop access panel on GE C44-9W No. 9829.

Before departing Hayden, Arizona, for a trip to the Asarco’s Ray copper mine, the conductor of Copper Basin Railway’s OT-1 makes a roll-by inspection of the train on April 20, 2017.

Workin' On The Railroad After some morning work was done on the NS Atlanta North-End, we watch a heavy duty Peterbilt Hyrail Truck push four two bay rock hoppers into the set off ... (more)

An employee for Locomotive Specialist cleans the inside doors on their newest rebuilt engine, number 1369. CSX would come later in the day to inspect the locomotive and take deliver in order to s... (more)

Union Pacific GE ES44AC No. 5401 has just received a coat of Armour yellow paint in the paintshop at UP’s Downing B. Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 18, 2015. Up next after a p... (more)

As NS 9964 North creeps up the yard lead, his conductor throws the switch in front of him and waits to board. On the mainline tracks, another grain empty and a 216 out of Jacksonville, FL, wait to... (more)

Low-Leveling at Princeton Junction: A NJ Transit conductor leans on a bulldozer to observe passengers alighting from Northeast Corridor Line Train 7847 using a low-level platform at the ea... (more)

Pan shot of the only Amtrak yard engine of its type to have full size number boards.

With the end of the loaded coal car supported fully, a welder begins cutting away the defective rail below as work continues into the night to get the branch line back open.