This unusual crossing signal still works correctly at an apparently unused private crossing. The lights did go out when a westbound freight approached.

Out-of-service Alco RSD-5s and a single RSD-4 await their fate at the Albuquerque roundhouse.

SCL E6 501 sits in Denver with a five car CB&Q NEBRASKA ZEPHYR train set. The EMD unit is now restored as ACL 501 in Spencer, NC and the articulated train was sold to Saudi Arabia.

Former PRLX 3004, ex CP 5603 now BNSF 1322 leads this baretable move up the ex Santa Fe San Jacinto Branch as it works up the steep Box Springs grade.

Seeing these units from one of the final orders of locomotives delivered to the Santa Fe before the merger is always bittersweet. Nineteen years ago this was the pride of the Superfleet.

After running demonstrations on the AVR out of Oakmont, the AVR has brought the Colorado Railcar DMU to Pittsburgh where Amtrak will take it east the next morning.

A rare passenger extra on private ore hauling road LTV Steel Mining Company rolls past a stopped empty ore train. The passenger train was operated for mining engineers but seats in the first car w... (more)

During the 83rd international Motorshow (Salon de l'auto) in Geneva, several extra trains running across Switzerland. Those trains always are well frequented. Here we see the return of 30735 to Zu... (more)

One of CN's distributed braking cars brings up the tailend of 313. These boxcars (purchased from CP, coming from the BN) have an air compressor to maintain air pressure on long trains during cold ... (more)

One of CN's distributed braking cars brings up the tailend of 316X. These boxcars (purchased from CP, coming from the BN) have an air compressor to maintain air pressure on long trains during cold... (more)

A weathered ex-Pennsy F7 is teamed with an ex-New York Central F7, and will be crossing the Rockville Bridge momentarily. Note the red P variation on the second unit.

Two side-rod electrics roll by the Ludvika passenger station with an iron ore train. The cars were three-axle cars, quite common in Sweden in thoose days.

This was the last winter on SJ:s last narrow gauge line with passenger traffic. Gauge was 891 millimeters.

Run-through Burlington Northern power is serviced at Western Pacific's Oroville yard in northern California. The BN power, combined with a WP engine, shows how colorful the first few years of the... (more)