Gramps. UTLX 55172, painted for Gramps Oil, sits with other historic equipment at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, CO.

A Oddball Old Critter I believe this is a Whitcomb rests behind the Apache railways shop in Snowflake AZ in the spring of 1979

KCSM power along with some red and silver lead this Slaton, TX to Barstow manifest along the Needles Sub at Essex.

Watching this ancient radial coupler approach a coupling with a modern railcar I am wondering how many times this incredible survivor has done this. I'm not much of a trolley fan but I love inter... (more)

The Holbrook Turn is headed back to Snowflake, hauling about 40 empty tanks cars destined for rehab that it picked up from the BNSF interchange at Holbrook. Apache runs maybe once a week now-a-da... (more)

Metra’s “City Of Chicago” inspired locomotive screams past the Historic Gaylord Building in Downtown Lockport with Heritage Corridor 919.

The main engine house at the Nevada Northern is only heated by the steam from warming locomotives and this coal fired stove. In the perfect encapsulation of the railroad, the stove was apparently ... (more)

"Take OKC Streetcar to the Law School"

An Oklahoma City Streetcar makes a station stop at the Oklahoma City University School of Law on the wet morning of May 4th, 2021. Th... (more)

ES44DC 2242, ES44DC 2313, SD75I 5774 and SD75I 5762 depart from Clover Bar Yard and head west on the Wainwright Sub.

D&S 461 heads "west" on the old D&RGW timetable on the south side of Hermosa.

In August 2007, I found Vintage Locomotives, Inc. (VILX) Alco RS3 512 sitting at the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She was built as Reading Railroad (RDG) 495 in 1952... (more)

Light snow is falling on Coors engine 988 (SW900) as it sits on display at the Colorado Railroad Museum, which is right down the street from the Coors Brewery. The engine was built in 1938 and it... (more)

KCS 5011 heads west down San Timoteo Canyon at El Casco.

Westbound manifest freight MEWRV holds for a patch crew just west of Beaumont with KCS 5011 on the rear.

When a snowstorm forced me to change my routing on a drive from LA to Philadelphia, I found myself in Dodge City, KS, where I found this 45t and two ex Missouri Pacific dome cars (painted for thei... (more)