FC 6974 ex BNSF SD40M at Yetter, IA.

Missouri Pacific Baldwin DR-4-4-1500 #207 babyface style carbody built in late 1948 at Omaha, Nebraska on March 31, 1951. These units would not m-u with any other power, and so were destined to... (more)

Missouri Pacific 4602 is at the headend of a trio of RS-11s running westbound through Kirkwood, Missouri on August 14, 1960. After purchasing something near a legion of GP7's and GP9's the order... (more)

The "Train du Désert" with GPL-15T BB # 207 stands in the stub track of the Boulenouar station on PK 96 of the 650 kilometer long railway line from Nouadhibou to Zouérate. It will depa... (more)

C&EI GP7 71 (originally numbered 206) with a lone ERIE 40ft box car and C&EI Caboose 438, crossing the Chicago 21st street diamonds on June 2, 1968. The C&EI had 30 GP7's (203-232) easily their... (more)

An unidentified Conrail freight train passes through Metropark in Iselin NJ on February 11, 1979, under the power of a pair of E44 electrics. I had no idea at this time that these motors only had ... (more)

As UP 1616 starts to head for the switch to the mainline, Polson Logging Co. #2 heads back into the gates at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center.

CSX 2024 Santa Train passing the turntable at Dante Yard

A Southern Rwy scale test car sits in the Wheel Balancing Shed at Spencer shops, NC. The shed, built in 1944, houses a set of eight Fairbanks scales connected to the tracks where steam locomotives... (more)

DRGW in the Royal Gorge Deep in the Royal Gorge, Rock N Rail with UP 1989 on the lead. Made for a delightful morning in the canyon.

Amtrak Pennsylvanian Equipment Deadhead still operating as train 42 knocks down TRAFF as they roll east to Harrisburg. They’re passing Amtrak P42 118 stored on the Turtle Creek Industrial Track ... (more)

Every now & then in this hobby you get to see someone famous riding the rails, this day it was Jay Leno riding in the cab of UP's "Big Boy" #4014 across western Iowa during their Heartla... (more)

Santa Fe U30CG 8000 former nos. 400, U28GC 7908 (#358) and U30CG 8005 (#805) all ex-passenger locomotives that was on freight service on May 25, 1971 at Galesburg, Illinois. After the Amtrak t... (more)

On December 12, 1962, an unusually heavy No.1 headed around the curve at Palmer Lake with PA-PB and two F7A's. The train size that day would appear to be occasioned by Christmas season mail, a... (more)

There is a lot to see at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. But, if you're lucky enough to get into the old Central Pacific/Southern Pacific shops nearby, there is even more to s... (more)