It’s 11:45 a.m. and we’re running a couple hours late, meeting and passing through plenty of BNSF freight traffic in Iowa aboard Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr on November 7, 2018. Cruising ... (more)

A few loads of Liebeherr construction equipment heading west on CN 305.

Metra EMD SW1200 No. 3 moves two newly-acquired EMD F59PHI locomotives on the north end of Metra’s coach yard south of Chicago Union Station on November 8, 2018. METX Nos. 73 and 77 are two of 21 ... (more)

How to get a GP15 back on track at the hump in Roseville

At Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, a welder (boilermaker by trade) carefully builds new lower pilot assemblies for the railroad’s SD40N rebuild program on May... (more)

Close-up view of Santa Fe 2862 after the major derailment involving three trains. The SF 2862 east plowed into another eastbound waiting at Mountainair, NM for an approaching westbound hotshot. Th... (more)

Two painters apply the Scotchlite striping to the side sill of Union Pacific GE ES44AC No. 5401 during a repainting in the paint shop at the railroad’s Downing B. Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, ... (more)

The action takes place on the Avnyuga narrow-gauge railway in Arkhangelsk region at the Russian North. Train driver Boris drives TU6A narrow gauge diesel locomotive with a local train from Poperec... (more)

Nothing is moving at the moment as the pair of ALCO's just finished up pulling the passenger train into the station. Blue flagged to the right is Santa Fe's Chico buisness car. In the back ground ... (more)

I am in the cab of BC Hydro 383, looking back at BC Hydro 384 as we run long hood forward with our train. You can see the BC Hydro caboose at the end of the train. This was the power I had a cab... (more)

The boiler is drained of water after removal of the washout plug on Rio Grande C-18 2-8-0 No. 315 at Chama, New Mexico, on the morning of June 6, 2018, after the Consolidation brought a freight tr... (more)

A member of the 315 operating crew wipes down the valve gear of Rio Grande C-18 2-8-0 No. 315 at Chama, New Mexico, on June 6, 2018, after the Consolidation brought a freight train from Antonito t... (more)

3 stages of rebuilds in a line. NS 4095 has just recently started to be rebuilt into a AC44C6M, 4094 behind has had all the work done and will be painted soon, and 4119 was rebuilt at Roanoke and ... (more)

The last light of day on May 4, 2011, is quickly turning to night as a freight train is classified over East Hump at Union Pacific’s sprawling yard at North Platte, Nebraska.

Union Pacific EMD SD38-2 No. Y810 sits outside waiting for the next train to sort, while East Hump Foreman R.C. McKain catches up on “paperwork” on the lower level of East Hump tower at North Plat... (more)