Roberto Verascal fills the front sand reservoir of SP AC No. 204 at Cape Canaveral.

At sunset, tunnel motor No. 8242 idles in Cape Canaveral.

SD9E No. 4402 idles at sunset in Cape Canaveral.

Various EMDs are under repair at the Roseville Shops.

A string of SP SD40-2Ms idles at "Cape Canaveral" in Roseville Yard.

Venerable SP SW1500 No. 2689 sits in the Roseville Shops awaiting repairs. In the last half of the 1980s, SP began removing all oscillating Gyralites from its locomotives. The reason? The FRA had ... (more)

Wisconsin Central prepares its newly purchased Santa Fe SD45s with some truck work, among other things, at the shops at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. I used to wander inside those shops with a cam... (more)

Y6a #2165 gets some maintainence at Shaffers Crossing. Sitting outside as seen through the window panes behind 2165, lurks another Y-class behemoth, Railroad: Norfolk & Western
Locomotive: Steam 2-8-8-2
Location: Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: NW 2165
Train ID: n/a
Photo Date: August 07, 1956

D&H U33C No. 755 was undergoing an overhaul at the Colonie Shop in Watervliet, NY on Sept. 14, 1976. It was one of those pleasant late summer days and I guess the workers figured they could enjoy... (more)

Two big Alligators sit in front of the now-vanished shops on a beautiful fall afternoon in Barstow.

Not often you see a diesel pop off. The shops were torn down when the yard rebuild was done.

Elsdon Yard, on Chicago's southwest side, had a roundhouse and service facilities for Grand Trunk Western steam power until the end of the steam era. We visited the yard and found a good number of... (more)

501 & 2304 have just been washed at the Colonie shops.

Home for Christmas.

Now that the SD60s are back, they're becoming a more common sight in St. Paul. Here, 6029 is being prepared at the St. Paul service island for a trip east to Chicago.