POED accelerates across the Scarborough, Marsh giving off a classic show. Three Guilford Gray's haul 75 cars through CPF203 as they begin the westward journey towards East Deerfield spewing smoke ... (more)

An eastbound is moving up for the assault on Cajon Pass and oh, mon dieu, she's smoking a little. I wish I could have chased it up the hill.

After idling for hours waiting for a nb to clear, the C40s on this southbound erupt with exhaust smoke as their throttles are opened. Interesting that 7511 has no nose logo.

Following a weekend snowstorm, the Batten Kill Railroad set out to work the Cargill-Salem, New York mill on February 16, with a planned run to Eagle Bridge, NY with the company's snow flanger in t... (more)

This afternoon, Mid-America Car in KC released the Iowa Interstate #516 and placed it out on the setout track for the KCS. The paint on this is a nod to the Rock Island's red and yellow from the ... (more)

The West Coast Railway Associations latest locomotive acquisition x-CN 6520 a GMD FP9A is seen here on her first start-up after arriving in Squamish more than a year ago, many thanks to our volunt... (more)

LOL, take that EPA !

How times do change.

The fall sugar beet “campaign” draws Colorado railfans to the UP, the Burlington, Colorado & Southern and the Great Western. Few think of the Rock Island, but on November 6, 1965, a westbound ... (more)

RS-18u 1800 cuts the grass in the Newport yard, marking the winding down of CP operations in Vermont.

A former CNW GP60 pulls a transfer train from the UP’s North Yard to the BNSF Rennick Yard in the early morning light of a mid-summer day. The train has just come through Prospect Junction and ... (more)

And they're off!

The 'T' stood for 'Transfer', meaning the locomotive was capable of faster transition and higher sustained speeds than the regular 'S' - type yard switcher series. There were only 57 built and N&W... (more)

The highlight of the trip? It was very likely this. Just north of the A&M shops, we see this ex-N&W ALCO T6 kicking cars in the Springdale, AR yard. While the road trains had the bigger power, t... (more)

A pair of SP 628's were doing what ALCO's do throttling up taking a cut of cars out of SP's old Colton yard to the new West Colton yard.