The main shop building at Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, has a large group of locomotives in for rebuild and overhaul on May 18, 2015, including UP SD40-2 No... (more)

While visiting NRE in Silvis to inspect Eldon, IA's GP7 purchase, we were allowed to tour the entire ex-Rock Island complex with an escort and proper PPE. CP 4521 and SVGX 8355 are in the shop fo... (more)

While visiting NRE in Silvis to inspect Eldon, IA's GP7 purchase, we were allowed to tour the entire ex-Rock Island complex with an escort and proper PPE. There were several SOO GP38's in for rebu... (more)

The Rock Island depot museum in Eldon, IA has purchased a former Santa Fe GP7 from NRE in Silvis and is having it restored and painted as Rock Island 1275 in the red/yellow scheme with large white... (more)

What a difference a year makes.... You are looking at the inside of the Mountain State Railroad & Logging Historical Association's (MSRLHA) Killoran Restoration Shop at the Cass Scenic Rail... (more)

Rio Grande F9A 5771 gets serviced in the road's Burnham Shops in Denver, Colorado, on August 29th, 1973. Rio Grande was one of the few railroads (along with Rock Island and Southern Railway) that... (more)

While one of the most worn and battered AEM-7's on Amtrak's roster, this old workhorse is one of the longest surviving toasters, outliving all of her DC sisters. At the time of this posting she i... (more)

NJ Transit GP40PH-2B 4212 is inside the Morristown & Erie's Morristown shop. Alstom is utilizing a portion of the shop space for the installation of Positive Train Control apparatus on board NJ Tr... (more)

A sneaky peak at the New York City maintenance facility for the Amtrak ACELA trains sets. Yes, it's pretty cool that in my hometown, about 3 miles from my home, the fastest trains in all the Unite... (more)

Electrician Ben Hampson rewires the control stand of former Wisconsin Central No. 3025. The GP40 was acquired by MRL when CEECO (Coast Engine and Equipment Co.) closed in 2009. It sat indoors in L... (more)

The morning sun streams in through the skylights at the Mineral shop at the crew discusses the day's work. The 2015 regular season operations will begin soon, and the shop crew is working hard to ... (more)

This late evening look inside the DMIR Proctor shops finds 1967 scheme DMIR 142, a Phase 3 SD9 in the company of SD38ACs, an SD18 and an SDM. By this time it was becoming more difficult to find th... (more)

The unmistakable girth of an EMD DD35A looms above the east bay of the Provo car shop on May 28, 1977.

One of the reasons EMD came to dominate the diesel business is the outstanding service they provided to the railroads even after they sold the engines. This extended to designing the locomotives p... (more)

A JS class 2-8-2 is separated from it`s tender as it undergoes an overhaul at Sandaoling in 2005.