NS 9646 is seen here at Juniata Locomotive Shop awaiting either scrap or rebuild after being involved in the July 2022 Columbia, SC derailment

SP 4449 and SP&S 700 sit side by side at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland, OR.

Pioneer Valley CF7 #2558 waits its fate at Casella Waste in Holyoke. I saw a photo of it here a couple months prior so I was surprised to see it still on one piece...

All about depth perception... Flying a couple of hundred feet above track level we see the 15-car Durango bound 464 wrapping itself around Horseshoe Curve before exiting the High Line and making a... (more)

F3A 4134, F3B 4329, F7B 4402 and F7A 4185 at Southern's Inman yard, Atlanta, GA. To accommodate a 1225 gallon water tank, Southern relocated the air tanks to the roofs of several F3As, including... (more)

Two ex Erie Lackawanna SD45-2s help an intermodal train up the grade nearing the famous Horseshoe curve. It was a fine autumn day and the fall colors were great. April 1st is Conrail's 48th birthd... (more)

Wrecked Amtrak P42 9 sits outside the shop at Beech Grove.

Trona Railway's "Daily Run" crosses Searles Station Rd on it approach to Searles, where the crew will interchange with the Union Pacific before returning to Trona.

Lehigh Valley Rail Management's AM job departs Iron Hill Yard on a rainy morning with a transfer run to NS behind a trio of ex-L&N/CSX switchers. This was once a booming location in the midst of B... (more)

Union Pacific GP35 762 is an interesting locomotive. Recently repainted in North Platte NE (on September 18, 1974), this locomotive was not purchased new from builder EMD. Built as EMD Demonstra... (more)

CN's latest Dome Car, the CN 119, heads to sweet home Homewood on the tail end of Z 149. In Fresh CN business paint the former Amtrak 10031 "Ocean View" has a new life on CN. The car is... (more)

One Month: Just one month after being released from the Wabtec facility in Erie, PA, this AC44C6M was involved in a derailment as the trailing locomotive on NS 96Z in Madison, MO after the train w... (more)

As passenger trains were cancelled everywhere a few classy looking units could still be captured. By the time I got to Wichita Falls later that year they were gone. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, fr... (more)

ATSF 2-10-2 1696 is seen helping EMD E6 number 15 with a ten car Super Chief near Morley Colorado in 1942. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Locomotives really are washed once in a while
A Union Pacific EMD SD9043MAC gets a thorough cleaning before heading into the main shop for an overhaul on Track 2 at the east side buildi... (more)