Ex-MP 13569 sits in UP Atchison Yard wearing Midwest Locomotive reporting marks in preparation for its move to Kansas City. When it arrives their shop it will be refurbished, sandblasted, and rep... (more)

Street Running - Alaska Style

This is as close as you can get to street running in Alaska as a yard job shoves three cars north toward CEI. The little train is running alongside 1... (more)

Last Day

For 54 years, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western’s original 1930 MU cars served its suburban electrification. On their first journey they were piloted out of Hoboken by ... (more)

A Gunderson built bulkhead flatcar sits on the West Point siding in the early morning hour looking like it's awaiting unloading of its heavy structural steel beams. I... (more)

The unfortunate aftermath of the MWCNP train with UP 7088's blown turbo and trailing unit 6609 hidden beneath a blanket of crankcase oil. The first 15 cars of the manifest freight were also bad or... (more)

The Reserve Mining Company lives on as the #1223 is prepped for service inside the ancient E&LS roundhouse. I know this has become overkill and annoying, but I cannot emphasis enough that this ... (more)

Venice IL Aug 6 1976 -- Union Electric Lines 7 (left) and 4 are examples of fireless cookers. No 7 has already lost its headlight but still has its generator.

A Conrail MoW gondola sits on the remains of the old Lehigh & Hudson River main. The L&HR railroad was a bridge line running northeast-southwest across northwestern New Jersey. This was the L&HR m... (more)

Where's the rails? The double-tracked electrified Columbia Branch has almost sunk into the ground by the late 70s, as a short local heads upgrade through the weeds to Lancaster.

Bringing up the rear of a southbound Union Railroad loaded ore train is URR caboose number 101 at milepost 2 along the North Bessemer Branch in Penn Hills, PA.

A pallet of goods donated by Amtrak employees destined for West Virginia flood victims is loaded carefully onto the baggage car of the Cardinal.

The UP Laramie Job is seen shoving back a string of cars on a siding at the UP yard in Laramie, Wyoming. This Local also services various industries in the area.

Freight cars are staged for inspection on tracks 1 and 2 before being filtered into the railcar repair area of Curry Rail Service's Hollidaysburg Shop. Built for the PRR in 1954 as their Samuel Re... (more)

The newly restored Southern Railway Big John rolls out of Spencer yard behind 3170 and 2601.

Well... I know this is vandalism, but whoever painted this has talent. They could definitely use their gift in other ways to express themselves but it is eye-catching. It had to take a long time ... (more)