KCS 4688 had enough this morning and its prime mover apparently decided to "run away". You could see the smoke from 10 miles away. KCPD and KCFD responded to KCS Knoche Yard this morning and watch... (more)

The morning fog accentuates the rough surface texture of rail.

Was it any crossties or was it the sod that held the gauge on MILW's Winifred branch near Suffolk when the local with eight 40-ft. box cars tenderly negotiated it at 10 mph? Remnants of old "rai... (more)

Oh the indignity. A former Water Level Route hack brings up the markers on a welded rail work train moving through the mountains of central PA on the former PRR Middle Division, just two years af... (more)

A lone SD60 leads a UP Roadrailer through Chicago's south suburbs. Tom Golden photo.

Just days after being unloaded off a ship from Europe at Houston, Southern Pacific's second generation German Krauss-Maffei diesel hydraulic 9005 is paired up with an F-7 at Eugene, Oregon roundho... (more)

Maybe where CSX got the idea? Power hungry D&H leased this RS-3. Note 1967 Ford Country Squire in background - as common as RS-3s back then.

Commuter RTA106 with some old coaches somewhere in Chicago

Rock Island F2 49 apparently had to have a face make-over once upon a time, and not having any extra headlights, the shop forces sheet-metaled over the nose. This is NOT a photoshopped exercise!... (more)

Out of a roster of 40, two UP GE U50C;s bring westbound tonnage into Green River for a crew change.

The Jordan spreader work train is amply supplied with horsepower with two Milwaukee Road GE box cab electrics E50A and E50B while dressing the ballast near Piedmont, Mont. Easy around those pole... (more)

UP GP-35 762 guides two ugly-duckling GE 4500GETL 4500-hp units 60 and 60B eastward on a train into Cheyenne, Wyo yard as a C&S SD-9 crosses overhead ahead of the train.

The luxury Blue Train, northbound from Cape Town to Pretoria, is framed by the rusting footbridge at Fochville station as it speeds through behind a pair of class 14E Bo-Bo electrics. These locomo... (more)

New Tramway Citadis 302 'line B' in Orléans in front of the cathedral 'Sainte-Croix d'Orléans'. The new line opens the next day. In order not to disturb the townscape of Orléans, the tram runs... (more)