A Southern Pacific covered hopper awaits departure from North Yard in Salt Lake City for Ogden on July 30, 2016.

Referred to as the "Death Train" by a since retired crew member, the Torrance Local travels through some of LA's grittier areas and looks like it.

Well... I know this is vandalism, but whoever painted this has talent. They could definitely use their gift in other ways to express themselves but it is eye-catching. It had to take a long time ... (more)

BBQ unit

Happy Halloween
Even taggers can sometimes help the railroad get into the Halloween Spirit.

You never knew what would show up on the Lachine Spur. Back when it was in use, you never knew what engines would be ferrying to or from Canadian Allied Diesel on CN's Lachine spur. CN 2684... (more)

Marooned On the Waterfront in Eureka California - SP 2872 and four other former Southern Pacific GP-9's sit rotting away in the salt air of the North Coast burb of Eureka. Once known for l... (more)

Sbahn Belgrade.

An eye-catching Godzilla design with boxcar in hand adds some color to the side of this Golden West Service freight car as it moves along with the rest of Q612.

10600 HP for one freight car down the 2.6 % grade of the Gotthard south ramp. Re 6/6 # 11626 "Zollikofen" is leaving Airolo with the local freight train down to Bellinzona, passing a typical Gotth... (more)

Today the last of the series, dualpower electric/diesel locomotive Eem 923 030 "Chestenberg" from Stadler Rail Winterthur for SBB Cargo made its approval test run, pulling the very short freight 6... (more)

The use of the aged Ae 6/6 locomotives currently lives up once again, daily (Mo to Fr) about 7 locomotives are on the tracks with freight trains of the Swiss wagonload traffic. Ae 6/6 # 11440 (for... (more)

Am 843 073 of the SBB Cargo Niederglatt team is pulling freight 58440 from Niederglatt to Hüntwangen. The 4 empty gravel cars are coming from revision or repair for new service in the gravel trai... (more)

I am neither a meteorologist nor clouds specialist, but I think this is a very nice and large example of a cumulus congestus over the Rhine bridge, when freight train 44692 from Limmattal shunting... (more)