Working it's way down the Joint Line south of Denver, this special Amtrak move to get one of it's newest electric unit #600 to the Pueblo test track is seen passing through Greenland.
The smaller railroads play an important role in keeping old engines active. Here the 46 year young SW1500 of the Denver Rock Island Railroad shuffles freight cars in an industrial yard in north D... (more)
BNSF SD70MAC #9436 helps out a 7+ hour late Amtrak train #4 eastbound at Bluewater, NM on 5/4/13. This engine was added at Kingman, AZ, and would lead this train all the way to Chicago, IL since t... (more)
one of Santa Fe's ten GP40X units lead the "baby" steel slab train across the SP's Wilminton Branch at West Thenard automatic interlocking in Wilmington, CA. At the time Santa Fe ran a seventy fou... (more)
The result of not loading a car correctly. Or, it is the least efficient way to unload a pulpwood car. photo taken with permission
Proctor and Duluth fire fighters train on a special tank car designed for this purpose.
At sunrise, Port of Montreal #1003 & #2007 are pulling loaded Canadian Pacific railcars as it rumbles passing by Marché Bonsecours(Market)inaugurated in 1847 in the Old Port of Montreal.
Ex-ATSF 2627 and cousin Ex-ATSF 2480, not pictured, behind 2627, sit on an old industrial track with an unusual design in Clinton, NC. Both Ex Santa Fe's await an uncertain fate. The newly acquire... (more)
The illustrious Micheline was the first rubber-tyred train. André Michelin frequently travelled in a sleeping carriage, and it is said that his insomnia played a major role in the Micheline proje... (more)
This is a combination of a Conrail slug # 1020 and an Indiana Harbor Belt SW1500. A unique find in rural Va.
While it looks like a Pennsy E-8, on Oct. 7, 1968 the 4274, looking the worse for wear, was actually Penn Central leading 4-car Train 14 from always-busy Chicago Union Station en route to Detroit... (more)
This interesting set of Dupont equipment (with NS logos) is used to train fire departments on tank car/chemical safety. It was on CN in Proctor.
built in 1962 by EMD la grange