NRE 30 at Alamo Junction Rail Park, frac sand facility in Elmendorf, TX.

Texas and Oklahoma power at Sweetwater, TX.

UPY 404 in fresh paint at Settegast Yard in Downtown Houston.

B&P local BT-3 traipses off the Northern Sub at WS and enters the yard limits at Butler.

SCOX 5001 is one of only two GP30s built by EMD for service in Canada when delivered to Canadian Pacific as No. 8201 and later renumbered CP No. 5001. The locomotive was eventually sold to Rail Sw... (more)

Contraction and Expansion

When the Susquehanna lost its western connection Lehigh & New England in 1961, the road suffered a forced retrenchment from Hainesburg, New Jersey to the ... (more)

OPR makes it's grand debut at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center after pulling SP 4449 and consist back from Oaks Park.

Fresh out of EMD...sort of. OPR has restored number 100 to it's Portland Traction heyday of electrified locals around SE Portland. I really appreciate the everyone involved in this, thank you OPR!

This power consist has just cut off of its train, which came over the hill from LA. In the consist are two EMD SDP40Fs, which Santa Fe recently purchased from Amtrak. ATSF will rebuild them into S... (more)

EMD produced only seven NW3 locomotives. All were purchased by the Great Northern. A.E. Staley in Morrisville, Pa. has one of the two survivors, ex GN 179. View is from a public street during the ... (more)

One of two! Amtrak F69 #450 has been repainted into Siemen's colors for the German ICE train that visited many communities in 1993.

The newest addition to the unique locomotive roster of Frontier Rail's Cincinnati East Terminal Railway, SD45-2 number 332, basks in the late afternoon sun after leading one of her first trips on ... (more)

OKLAHOMA CITY OK Mar 23 1975 -- CF7 2639 sits on the elevated tracks south of the Amtrak station and near the Rock Island interchange track. Note the blue number board and rounded cab roof. Some t... (more)

Sitting at EMD's factory in La Grange, Illinois, is Southern Pacific GP9 5643. Southern Pacific assigned class DF-607 to this order of 104 diesels (SP 5643 was the eighteenth unit of the order). ... (more)

It's better than a -2. It's -2 innards in a old model and that makes it better. Could be I'm envious. My notes indicate this one started out on MP, went to CNW, then to PAL before its transplan... (more)