A pair of 60-year-old locomotives still active at Alton Steel in Alton, Illinois. GTW 4614 is a GP9R built in 1957. Gulf Coast Rail Services 1236 is an ex-Terminal Railroad of Saint Louis SW1200... (more)

Nearing the end of CN’s operations over the former LE&N portion of the Burford spur. Today it is a walking trail. The old LE&N engine house once sat where the houses are.

The power has uncoupled from the train, crossed the street, and is now idling next to the engine shop in Barre, where the crew would fill up the 804 with oil, and replace the brake shoes before ty... (more)

On the way down to Atlanta, I felt like it would only be right to stop in Lavonia on the way, to see what they had over in the sheds. Not too my surprise, the Ex-CNW, HRT 4556, was the only one in... (more)

In nice evening light, GTW 4619 and BLE 908 work a massive cut of cars at the west end of Kirk Yard. Rumors were circulating about the possible retirement of these old GTW GP9R's. Today, they cont... (more)

Beneath a pall of what the local Chambers of Commerce like to call "haze" a short local meanders back into West Colton Yard. Slover Mountain the background is slowly be turned into ceme... (more)

CN L515 is working local customers along the Mt. Clemens Subdivision with the GTW 4632 and 6221.

As the sun sets behind the horizon, HRT 4556, (Ex. CNW) sits at the shops in Lavonia Georgia, patiently awaiting it's next assignment

FCEN 7032 awaits the call to duty resting in Modello Yard. Photo taken from public grade crossing. FCEN runs a network of former SCL / CSX lines NW of Orlando.

Heading for a crew change at South Pekin, a Chicago & North Western freight skirts Peoria, Illinois, and crosses Kickapoo Creek in March 1984. The southbound train is powered by venerable EMD GP9R... (more)

A sunny late morning in Barre, VT finds the last Green Mountain geep and a leaser GP38 preparing to take cars up the hill to the granite quarry.

It's a cold and rainy morning in Lansing, Michigan as the Jackson & Lansing Railroad rolls alongside Clare Street and heads towards the CN interchange with a train primarily made up of coal hopper... (more)

A pair of CN GP9RM's splits the signals as they depart Byron, WI for the Quad Graphics plant just south of here in October of 2012. These units were quite a sight to see in an era of new GE's and ... (more)

What appears to be a "caboose hop" is actually a storage move with a shoving platform heading into Eustis to begin sorting out box cars from Tool World and Fort Mason to bring south.

Putting some in, taking some out. Storage cars, that is. The centerbeams will be put on the Sorrento Branch just past "the swamp" north/east of town then, using the shoving platform, the... (more)