We can surmise that the damage to the long hood was caused by a turbo/oil fire but the number is a mystery. Was this hapless unit involved in a wreck also?

Built in nearby LaGrange, a brand new Conrail SD50 awaits pick up by its owner at the Indiana Harbor Belt's Blue Island Yard. A set of older Conrail EMD power can be seen in the background as wel... (more)

Blue on blue
Two Cimarron Valley Railroad EMD GP30s sit outside the railroad’s three-stall engine shop at Satanta, Kansas, on the morning of March 1, 2000. At the time, the CVR locomot... (more)

The sun tries to peak out between the cloud on this overcast day as NS 1112 and sister unit 1110 is on NS 74K as DPU, as they sit waiting on a local crew to board NS 1112 to pull this 90 car coal ... (more)

At much less than a month old, BNSF ES44C4 8095 leads NS train 222 from Atlanta to Charlotte. Here at New Holland is about the only place on the entire district one can make a shot look wide open-... (more)

On their trip home to Omaha after a thorough rebuilding at Paducah, Kentucky, Union Pacific’s set of E9s curves into Hermann, Missouri, on April 27, 1993.

Not too far from Peach Creek, C&O had a string of 2-6-6-6’s condemned to scrap in the yard at Hinton, W. Va., such as 1624 on Aug. 5, 1956. I was too late to see and hear the brutes in action.

The sole surviving streamliner of the Katy sits stuffed and mounted in the afternoon sunshine at the railroad museum in Denison. Built in 1947, this unit started life as F3A #203C and was later re... (more)

Ex-RDG unit switching a paper warehouse. From the looks of those rerailing frogs they were ready for almost anything.

The ex-BN executive fleet have made it through another winter.

Steam Siphon in Action. Fireman Martin Hansen checks the level in the water tank on Mt. Emily Shay #1, as the locomotive's steam siphon draws water from the Lytle Creek and pours it into th... (more)

Former AMT unit 1306 at Silcott rail restorations.

The smoke lifters and winterization hood didn't seem to last long but they sure looked different. It sort of reminds me of one of those Australian lizards which throws out flaps around its head t... (more)

Union Pacific was the only railroad to purchase the EMD GP30B units, buying 40 of them #700B-739B. The cabless unit provided some cost savings in not having the expensive operating controls ... (more)