Bug Slug

Countless Alco switchers were rebuilt with Caterpillar or Cummins engines, and sold to small mine operations throughout Appalachia. Most had their cabs removed or sealed s... (more)

At some point decades ago, an old E&LS coach (presumed - exact lineage not known) was left in Turner to be used, reportedly, as a local schoolhouse. But today, the town of Turner consists of one h... (more)

Really white—trucks and all
Two retired tank cars are being used at a storage facility at Ansel, Colorado, along the shortline San Luis Central on September 1, 2013. The cars are no lo... (more)

Standard gauge cogwheel 0-4-0 steamlocomotive "Caspar Honegger", built in 1877 by Engineer Niklaus Riggenbach in the machine works Aarau for the textile works of Caspar Honegger in Rüti (ZH). The... (more)

Worldwide unique, a dining car on a railway with a maximum grade of 25.0 %! The "Salon Rouge" (red saloon) car B # 27 from 1936 was rebuilt from 2008 to 2010 to this gem, including a bar... (more)

It fits!!....just barely. V&T Motor Car #22's Motorman leans out of his cab waiting for his car to be turned on the NSRM Turntable, in preparation for returning to quarters for the night. ... (more)

All that's left from the "Last Spike" consist. Although the May 10th, 1869 completion of the first transcontinental railroad was a seminal moment in the history of the United Stat... (more)

Twelve years after the Milwaukee Road's Pacific Coast extension abandonment, skeletons of a pair of ABS block signals still stand between Lennup and Loweth MT.

What once was the front of a former Southern Pacific Cadillac is now reduced to a lawn ornament for a local tourist outfit. The 4405, as far as I know, was one of the Port of Tillamook Railroad's ... (more)

Linemen, Three Forks, MT. --- In the winter of 1980 The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) abandoned almost two thousand miles of track west of Miles City Montana.... (more)

The Stockholm metro is well known for its decoration of the stations; it has been called the longest art gallery in the world. Several of the stations (especially on the Blue Line) are left with t... (more)

Santa Fe 2921, built in 1943 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, basks in the sun at the Modesto Amtrak Station following its move out of Beard Brook Park just days before. The 650-ton locomotive and... (more)

The orange logo lives on, although most passers-by likely do not know what it represents. Between the Clark Fork River and the University of Montana, this is the former Milwaukee Road mainline in ... (more)

M-19 Fairmont Speeder, east of Beverly, WA--volcanic ash from Mouth St. Helen's 1980 eruption is visible on the tracks. --- In the winter of 1980 The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Rai... (more)

What are they doing here? Manualy turning (180 degree) of the carbody of electric cogwheel locomotive with rotary snow blower, He 2/3 # 8 of the Rigibahnen, former Arth-Rigi-Bahn (ARB), built by S... (more)