While on a yard tour given to me by a friend, ATCS 442 stands tall bearing its Southern Pacific paint scheme as it awaits PTC installment and operation later this year.

The engineer on the Arkansas & Midland invited me inside the cab to take photographs of the old Alco number 34. The train had stopped and was waiting for clearance to cross the Arkansas River bri... (more)

CNW 6706 and 6705 looking good in their new yellow and green scheme ready a train to head east out of Altoona Yard on a cool January day. At this time eastbound trains 406 and 408 came here from S... (more)

The Reading Co. Technical & Historical Society's C630 and GP30 are posed for the cameras of the attendees of the Blue Mountain & Reading's 1991 railfan weekend. It's interesting to note the heigh... (more)

The crew of Delaware & Hudson’s salt train retrieves C424m 452 from a siding on the Genesee & Wyoming at Retsof, New York. The train has operated push-pull west of Hornell to accommodate a rever... (more)

Daily the line is used for metropolitan trains, but on Sundays it is possible to see the tourist train running to its destination in the railway village of Paranapiacaba.

Built for the National de Mexico railway, Alco C424 #B906, along six sister units, was delivered instead to the Wabash, which was short on power. A road crew and a couple of hostlers, with whom I ... (more)

The future WNYP 430.

The “launch pad” located behind Erie Lackawanna’s Diesel Shop in Marion, Ohio served as an interesting backdrop for roster-type shots, and permission to photograph was easy to obtain. EL C... (more)

Shenandoah Valley's #367 Alco with 9 loaded soy cars, just south of the old depot in Pleasant Valley, is en-route to to interchange with Chesapeake Western. To us locals, you can never get enough ... (more)

A rare WNYP Hornell Turn is heading West through the ess curve at Tip Top between Alfred Station and Andover, NY on 1/29/2015. Daylight was running out, and I was only able to chase this as far as... (more)

The only ALCO RSC-3 locomotive still in operation in Brazil, currently providing services on maintenance trains in the suburb of Rio de Janeiro.

In Barreiro CP 1501, 1458, 115, 1904, 1937, 1454 and 1457 are waiting on their next service. CP 1501 was brought back in its origanal livery to commemorate 50 years of diesel traction in Portugal.... (more)