A group of Union Pacific locomotives are spotted for work and servicing inside the main locomotive shop building at the railroad’s massive Bailey Yard at North Platte, Nebraska, on May 5, 2011.

Hooker (HOKX) tank car No. 132482 is in the middle of repairs in the busy Progress Rail Services car shop at Amarillo, Texas, on June 15, 2012.

A bitter cold winter day has caused a rail break on the Wisconsin Central main line entering Shops Yard near the Subway Road grade crossing at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on December 11, 1994. T... (more)

A worker at Chicago & North Western’s Butler Yard locomotive facility uses a high pressure air line to clear the switches of snow on a cold February 21, 1993.

"Knocking off the Slag at Farmingdale" A Long Island Rail Road track worker knocks off slag from a recent thermite weld at the Secatogue Ave grade crossing on Main Line 1. Thermi... (more)

"Thermite Welding at Farmingdale" A Long Island Rail Road track gang thermite welds new rail at the Secatogue Ave grade crossing on Main Line 1. Thermite welding is the process o... (more)

In may be one of the strangest sights I've ever seen, a pair of CMQ SD40-2Fs, along with one of CP's military units, reverse light at Scott Street in Franklin Park. With the Sears Tower providing ... (more)

NX-13 begins its journey north out of Canaan to Pittsfield on a muggy summer afternoon.

The inbound engineer briefs with the outbound conductor in front of the La Junta Depot where Denver crews hand of the trains to Amarillo crews.

Meet Mr. Robert Riley, founder of Rock Island Rail who has brought his dream of a modern day Rock Island to life but in the Mississippi Delta region. On May 23, 2020 a special run was operated to ... (more)

As Metrolink train 926 rolls into its stop in Fullerton, California, the conductor prepares to load what few passengers are awaiting this Irvine to Los Angeles train. The COVID-19 pandemic has re... (more)

The Conductor (or the Assistant Conductor?) on Amtrak train 19, the southbound Crescent (running 1 hour 15 minutes behind schedule), has lined the hand-operated switch into the station and ... (more)

The conductor of C633 dismounts before the train shoves their 50+ car second cut through the loadout at Creech.

Brakeman Steve Bratina mans the switch at AOC looking onward as the conductor makes the joint on a loaded maleic acid tank car.

Towards the end of the clean out of the New York & Greenwood Lake's Dundee yard the crew kindly cut away the trackmobile to allow for an unobstructed shot of the GP9 "leading" some cars.... (more)