"Preparing the Way"

Workers from Strategic Rail Solutions dig out a flageway off a stub track on the Dundee Spur in Passaic in preparation of moving NYGL GP9 1268 out o... (more)

NYGL 1268 is crossing South Street in Passaic, NJ on Friday, February 28, 2020. The sad ending of the Dundee Spur of the Erie Railroad and the New York & Greenwood Lake Railway came on Friday, Feb... (more)

Hooping it up! Crews would order meals at The IL-MO Beanery in Scott City and pick them up on the fly: one for the locomotive crew, one for the caboose.

Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6704 gets a bath after having an engine change at the railroad’s South Morrill Locomotive Shop on September 15, 2017.

The early morning sun greets the Union Pacific 4014 big Boy as a member of the Steam Crew inspects and applies lubricant to the second engine on the locomotive.

CSX GP38-2 2756 stands on a southbound cut at Peachtree City, Georgia during the night of January 23, 2020 awaiting the arrival of Q541.

A Black River & Western work train rolls into the siding at Flemington, New Jersey. RS1 57 began life on the Washington Terminal, and now languishes on the East Penn in Quakertown, Pennsylvania.

Crescent Car Attendant

On May 4, 2011, electricians inside Union Pacific’s North Platte Diesel Shop in Nebraska, work on wire harnesses used in PTC installation for GE locomotives spotted on Track 1.

Back from a run to Croghan, the crew of the Walterboro turn is met by a non-operating type as they near the mainline. If I remember correctly, this train ran W'boro to Bennett Yard (N Charleston)... (more)

Engineer Mel Baughman pauses outside the depot at Helper, Utah, with Rio Grande SD40T-2 “Tunnel Motors” sitting in the yard behind him on October 5, 2004. Mel was born in Rifle, Colorado, on N... (more)

Part of the fun of spending two days at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center was getting to spend time with Doyle McCormack. Doyle headed up the restoration and operation of Southern Pacific 4-... (more)

"Checking the Plates" One of the LSAs aboard Amtrak's Silver Meteor towards Miami makes last checks of each plate before bringing them out to hungry patrons in the dining car. ... (more)

With three step applied, the conductor on mine run C660 removes the EOT, before running the power around an empty train to be loaded at the Spurlock loadout near Printer, Kentucky.