Trips to the North Pole took on a different look this season, with ex-ESWR #602 specially painted for the trips. This is paint, not a wrap. All three ex-ESWR units now have individual schemes. ... (more)
Former Amtrak F40 239 rolls into town with strobes on. Great memories.
Saved Twice. Chicago, Aurora & Elgin car 458 is one of the newest arrivals at at the Fox River Trolley Museum. Built in 1946 by the St. Louis Car Company, it was the last order that the CA&... (more)
Grain elevator locomotive, former Pennsy GP 9 7011.
Jackass & Western is a real rail operation for the Jackass Flats atomic testing basin at Nevada National Security Site. This link has many details about L-3: https://www.nnss.gov/docs/fact_shee... (more)
ATSF EMC 1 is seen at Raton New Mexico in 1937. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.
A brass band greets the last run of the Chicago South Shore & South Bend’s old interurban cars into Chicago’s Randolph Street Station on September 25, 1983. The six-car special train is led by... (more)
Erie Western's four RS3s (1600-1603) were delivered in June of 1978 and are former C&NW. Photographer unknown.
Time Zone Bridge. FIMX 4023 (ex-NS 4023, née-SOU 4023, GE, B23-7 HH, 4/1981) and FIMX 3138 (ex-CSX 3138, née-SCL 5149, GE, B23-7, 9/1978) lead the LHoist Crab Orchard-Rockwood, TN on Mond... (more)
Tramway between Hotel Excalibur (in the background) and Hotel Luxor.
It’s snowing at East Portal, Colorado, as the Rio Grande Ski Train heads west toward the Moffat Tunnel on the morning of March 24, 2007.
2 KCSM units lead a westbound MTUWC stopped at El Casco in San Timoteo Canyon.
TCRT 1300 provided haunted rides into the carbarn where ghosts await the passengers.
America’s Resourceful Railroad: Parts of Milwaukee Road woodchip cars, rebuilt from old rib-sided boxcars, still lives on today—donating their car sides long ago for an unique retaining wall b... (more)
ex C&NW 1552. From my collection, photographer unknown.