BNSF 9339 passes the newly added "raised" signal boxes. After the flood of the Des Moines River a few years back, the BNSF and CP invested money is raising the components of the diamond, all of th... (more)

A CSX U-Boat leading in 2013?! Actually, just MVCX U36B with other MVCX cars tacked onto the rear of Q439.

Two CSX gems lie hidden in the Airport Industrial Park outside of Philadelphia. On the left is SD20-2 2402, still in YN1. On the right is B30-7 5552 in YN2. These have been here for a good five ye... (more)

A unit with a dual identity crisis - in name and model designation... New England Central SD40-2 3317 arrived at Palmer, Massachusetts in the wee hours of Saturday, March 23, and was to be moved ... (more)

Westbound oil empties await crews at Minot yard. Unique power on each including CNJ heritage engine.

CP 640-025 passes through the Hunter Street tunnel in downtown Hamilton, Ontario. One of the lesser documented points of the Hamilton Subdivision, it was created in 1895 by the TH&B and was double... (more)

A pleasant surprise trails Rio Grande train No. 134 heading east along the Book Cliffs near Thompson.

Amtrak #237 is about halfway through it's express run to Rhinecliff, NY from New York City. This train is scheduled to help shuffle commuters who live north of Metro North's service out of the cit... (more)

Not a pair of locomotives you can find just any where... The WC unit began life as BN 6539 in 1971. The MN&S is a DT6-6-2000 and was built 12/48.

Amtrak Heritage Unit #66 leads the daily Raleigh to Charlotte "Piedmont" train #75 through Haw River, NC.

Of course when I was down in Indiana riding trains on the INRD I never saw an SD90 but all the way back home... An extremely rare visitor to Superior lays over. Doubtful this will ever happen agai... (more)

UP GP40X as well as other locomotives get their maintenance performed here at the Bailey Yard locomotive facility.

A Seaboard caboose is a long way from home as it sits on the spur track to the Marine Corps Logistics Base near the Union Pacific Yermo Yard. The caboose was one of three Seaboards - Family Lines... (more)

The demo GP22ECO unit sits at EMD's LaGrange plant.

Soo Line tested the Burlington Northern SD60MACs in 1993. Here, Nos. 9500, 9503 and 9502 are leading Soo Line train No. 430 and is meeting train No. 431 led by a Soo SD60 at Green Island, Iowa, on... (more)