Valley Railroad #40....minus a few parts. As she sits, the 40 looks a little bit like one of those stolen cars you find abandoned along the side of a highway. She's missing her wheels and ... (more)

Built in 1931 by ACF this EX-Santa Fe Ce 2 caboose is still in active duty being used as a shoving platform for the Iowa Interstate ballast train.

After years of service for her owner CPRail, former RS18u sits outside at Guelph Jct with hood doors open exposing the guts to the elements of mother nature. Used as a parts unit for a few of the... (more)

This rare Union Pacific 120-ton steam derrick is preserved at the Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden, Utah. No. 903037 was built by the Industrial Works as UP derrick 02781, and donated to the m... (more)

Look! There just ahead!! It's a bird, it's a train - it's Aerotrain! Built by GM to "save the industry" in 1955, the train was lightweight and streamlined utilizing a set of modified GM Truck &... (more)

Magnificently restored former Southern 2-8-0 385 is the centerpiece of the Whippany Railway Museum. During the late 1960s and early 1970s the 385 was on the roster of the Morris County Central Rai... (more)

A Milwaukee rib side caboose rolls on the the IHB crossing the Santa Fe mainline at McCook. The caboose is pretty weather beaten and also shows signs of impact from things being thrown at it. Now ... (more)

PRR Class G5s 4-6-0 #5741

PRR #5741 makes it's first full view appearance on RP. This engine is one of the best preserved class of PRR engines with 3 in existence.

The other two su... (more)

LS&I had a fair amount of RS-3's to start with, but over the years they were replaced with more sure footed RSD12's,RSD15's,U25C's and U23C's. Finally by the mid 70's most all the RS3's were gone... (more)

Sharp-looking 38 year old work horse.

Nevada Northern Rotary B. One of the most interesting pieces in the collection of the Nevada Northern Railway Museum, and one that is rarely photographed, is Rotary Snow Plow "B". She rare... (more)

Only a month or so from retirement RS-2 4001 rests in company of another "short timer" on the BN roster. No photographer information on slide and its my guess about it being at Vancouver due to th... (more)

This 3-foot guage Consolidated, as I understand it, was located to Idaho Springs by rail ... in other words it was donated to the city by being abandoned-in-place (ca. 1941) when the rail lines we... (more)

The remaining operable GE centercabs didn't have much work to do by this time, as the WA&G had acquired F7s from GE. The two F7s on hand would soon depart for Louisiana, and the centercabs would w... (more)

The end for Mongrel 1505 came when the roundhouse burned at Iron Mountain on June 12th, 1976. Here the unit is seen at Adams headed for scrap. Photo is in my collection with no photographer inform... (more)