Aberdeen, Carolina & Western Railway passenger excursion passes through near Pinehurst, North Carolina in 2005. ACWR 9582 is an EMD GP40-2LW built for Canadian National in 1975 with the same numbe... (more)

Two models representing a 20-year difference in EMD "General Purpose" locomotive production are now stablemates at the B&O Railroad Museum. B&O 6944 is a GP30 built in November 1962. C... (more)

Spartan cab Dash 8-40C returns to the roster. CSXT 7627 built new in August of 1990 looks to have more miles to cover for its original owner sporting number 9280. After retirement from CSX in 2016... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal empty descends Crawford Hill east of Crawford, Nebraska, on the morning of April 11, 1998. A short-lived mix of A.C. locomotives power the train back ... (more)

The Tunnel Motors were designed to keep units from overheating in tunnels and snowsheds like those on Donner Pass. The tunnel motor design was applied to 245 SP-SSW SD45T-2s and 239 SP-SSW and... (more)

Soo Line train 11 meets train 18 at Rugby, Wisconsin, late in the afternoon of July 26, 1987. Train 11 is led by Soo EMD SD40 No. 780, while a pair of EMD GP30s built in 1963 powers train 11.

With an ex-Conrail unit in the lead, a pair of GE Super 7's emerge out of the western portal of the short tunnel leaving Cambridge, Ohio on a spring afternoon. Having completed its work in town, t... (more)

Well Done, Rochester MassDOT 1137, a recently-rebuilt GP40MC spends the night in Lincoln after frying a traction motor and being set off on the siding. This unit has only been in service f... (more)

It's entirely possible this had Progress reporting marks for the short trip from Rice Yard, but what used to be CSXT 7018 sits with other units for scrap and/or rebuild. In later years, all of Pr... (more)

After spending the weekend at Locust Point Yard, W003-29 shoves out track 2 of the Locust Point Branch as it heads for the main at Baileys Wye.

An 88' 10" General Electric freight motor is seen working a switching move on the South Shore Line at Goff, around 0900 hrs.

A brief gap between the sun and clouds was just enough to capture this clean CTrail set, which consists of GP40-3H 6695 and three Mafersa coaches as train 6457 rolls through Wallingford.

Interchanging. The locomotive currently working the Honea Path job moves into the GRLW interchange to pick up two boxcars for a later movement toward Honea Path. The 9500 will return to th... (more)

On May 1, 1998 I was given a tour of the New York Cross Harbor yard in Brooklyn, but it was for a location scout for a television project that was potentially going to shoot there. I had to preten... (more)

October 14, 1996 - at Dolores Yard in Carson, CA (although I may be over the Compton border for this shot), a pair of speed lettered SP brutes await their next assignment. I was just getting back ... (more)