SRS 128 is heading eastbound testing the rail out to Montauk.

CN 1501, a Budd RDC Track Evaluation Car, makes a pass along T3 on the Oakville Subdivision in between GO and VIA trains.

Having been born after the doodlebug era, these were about as close as we could get to such an animal. They used to be everywhere. They were railroad looking and even had quarters aboard. Were ... (more)

CN's Budd RDC is testing the lineament and gauge.

SRS 128 waiting for westbound MU train 2039 from Ronkonkoma bound for Penn Station. The Sperry car will continue testing westbound.

The Corridor Clipper is an Amfleet I modified by Amtrak into a Track Geometry Car that includes a pantograph on its roof.

An FRA Geometry train heads through Burbank, CA at track speed on its way to Glendale where it will stop to pick up a pilot. The train took those of us on the coast line by surprise, and I had jus... (more)

DOTX 217, a track geometry car waits for an intermodal train at North Powder. This complex car can be operated by itself or towed behind another locomotive. In this case, Union Pacific SD70M #4917... (more)

An eastbound intermodal "K" Line train travels into the small town of North Powder. On the main, a Federal Railroad Administration geometry test car waits to head west. This car checks the gauge o... (more)

CN's self propelled diesel railcar sits quietly on the shop track at Jasper after testing the Edson Sub for defects.

Tied down on the house track at St. Albans, CSX's GMS-1 "Spirit of R.F. Silbaugh" geometry car awaits its next day of testing along the former C&O mainline between Huntington and St. Albans.

Amtrak operated a special Geometry Car Train on Monday, July 30, to inspect the Pan Am Southern Knowledge Corridor between Springfield and East Northfield, MA and on the New England Central Vermon... (more)

CN's Test Train has just arrived from Blue River and Kamloops and will lay over for the night in Jasper before heading out onto the Edson Sub in the morning.

CN's Test Train tests the siding at Barriere.

The business end of a Track Geometry train, BNSF 87 "Skagit River" measurement car sits quietly on a cold spring night. This car would head west the next morning measuring the track over Stampede ... (more)