Operating through a slow order, Amtrak No. 5 crawls over the fill on the approach to Big 10 Curve west of Rocky, Colorado, on June 9, 2014. A section of track on the fill was just lifted and hand-... (more)

Just west of Rocky, Colorado, on June 9, 2014, a Union Pacific Freightliner truck equipped with a Builtrite Handler lifts the rails for some hand tamping of the track and another very temporary fi... (more)

This is a view of a section of track on the Union Pacific Moffat Tunnel Subdivision main line west of Rocky, Colorado, on June 9, 2014. After the Colorado floods of September 2013, a 200-foot sect... (more)

Derailment at Tehachapi Loop. Happened the day before and the track has been replaced here with the first train due through the wreck scene in a few minutes. Loaded auto racks have been moved asid... (more)

A DMU has attempted to travel along 2 tracks at once! Seen at Tyseley depot in 1991.

A little off the top
When brand new rail is connected to an existing one there is going to be the problem of matching the top of the rail heads to form a smooth running surface. Since... (more)

A Brandt Peterbilt works south as it rolls by the historic station at St-Jean.

It's midnight on the Cumberland Subdivision as workers chisel away at the lining of the famous Harper's Ferry tunnel. An all night curfew on the weekends is providing eight hours of work each nigh... (more)

A profile shot of the Jordan Spreader stored at the Denver BNSF engine servicing facility shows the no-frills, utilitarian form.

The Borax brush sprayer is almost to the telephone pole on the Rock Island at Pleasant Hill, Mo. Aug. 28, 1965. Such work trains could disburse over 100,000 gallons of herbicides in a day. Then... (more)

Would you say it was high time to run the brush sprayer? Note the barely-visible pole line crossarm, adjacent to the two Rock Island GP-7s 1347-1337. Borax contractor brush sprayer was eastboun... (more)

Rock Island rebuilt motor car 9090 into a self-propelled weed sprayer; note the booms on the side that swing out. It was photographed with its tank car of herbicide at Topeka, Kansas

A CP section employee uses a leaf blower to clear out a switch after a heavy snow the night prior. I'm sure he was thinking this winter has to end sometime.

Clearing snow is a never-ending winter struggle on Marias Pass, especially this year. Here a "mini-dozer" (ballast regulator) clears a yard track at Essex. This machine has a neat attachment to it... (more)

1 of 4 diesel locomotives which the CTA uses for MoW. I believe they were all built by a company by the name of Niigata. On the left you'll see car 4272, one of the two 4000 "historical cars".