What do you do when a traction motor seizes up on a locomotive in the middle of nowhere? Call a Mantis 30011! At Cadiz in the middle of the Mojave Desert east of Barstow, California, Burlington No... (more)

A clean looking former B40-8 now de-rated to B20-8 status by CSX is power for this week’s Tucker Road Switcher and is seen taking a siesta at the namesake’s depot track. Soon it will be passe... (more)

A DM&IR dock worker uses a "trapping" machine to open the doors on an ore car. The cars contain natural ore from the Auburn Mine. Note the sledge hammer on the front on the machine - this sticky o... (more)

Railroads employed "date nails" to mark the last time ties were replaced. I have only come across these relics on what is now the CN Iron Range Sub and in Two Harbors outside the museum. The most... (more)

SWPC SD60 #416 leaves the Bell Mountain Quarry with another train of clinker for the cement plant in Victorville. The Southwestern Portland Cement Railroad has been in operation for nearly a centu... (more)

Montreal Maine & Atlantic #2 works upgrade on the Moosehead Subdivision near the Quebec/Maine border on a cold January morning.

NS' Norfolk & Western heritage ES44AC assists an eastbound NS 764 toward Bluefield, entering the west portal of Elkhorn Tunnel on its crew run from Williamson to Bluefield. Operating on home turf,... (more)

Utah Railway's RUT311 local drags 25 tank cars from Holly Refining through Salt Lake City, bound for Midvale Yard. Lurking beneath an interesting adaptation of Kansas City Southern and Utah Railwa... (more)

In Eritrea, a few Russian Ural 375-D trucks that have been built in the Soviet Union in the 60’s and 70’s have been converted to run on rail wheels. They have been used in the Eritrean railway... (more)

Service on NJ Transit's Raritan Valley Line is very typically handled by NJT's fleet of unique Alstom PL42AC locomotives. Therefore I am always happy to see anything other than a PL42AC ha... (more)

CN 4017 and an FPA4 lead an eastbound VIA train across the Grand River at Paris. The 4017 was one of two GP40s in passenger service - the other being 4016, neither of which were conveyed to VIA. ... (more)

Rare movement south of North Vernon to store cars passes the historic setting of Vernon, Indiana.

The Corridor Clipper is an Amfleet I modified by Amtrak into a Track Geometry Car that includes a pantograph on its roof.

New England Central's southbound road freight train #324 is seen kicking up newly falling snow as it rolls through the quaint New England railroad town of Randolph, Vermont. The NECR 324 is led by... (more)