Two generations of motive power meet on 611's final weekend at NCTM for awhile. The two locomotives are having a 'whistle off'.
Family Portrait at the Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden
Immaculate EMD power being readied for the Maryland Midland's dinner train. In a few minutes, the F7 will pull forward, allowing the GP9 to couple to the hind end for use on the return trip. No.... (more)
A Pennsy 4-4-2 and a Chessie U30B are unlikely stablemates in this scene- the occasion being the 125th Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. The PRR 7002 traveled from Strasburg the previous day... (more)
UP 7052 (AC4400CW) waits for a train to be assembled by the many Geeps working the 36th Street Yard.
Farewell! The HHP was done with service in November of 2014, and now we say farewell to the AEM-7 tomorrow, June 18, 2016. The ACS-64 is likely to be the face of conventional trains on the... (more)
NKP 765 sits in Franklin Park as a inbound Metra train passes it up. The 765 would shove back to Western Ave yard once this inbound cleared B-12.
N&W 611 pulls up for display at the Manassas Heritage Railway Festival as a VRE push-pull set arrives alongside it to give short train rides between Manassas and Clifton, VA.
1939 "John Bull" replica on display. I was fortunate to see this under steam circa 1983.
Goodbye to you... With the upcoming final farewell to the AEM-7's, I dug out the most memorable photo I've ever taken of one, on a Strasburg Railroad charter. The shot wasn't entir... (more)
Nearly 100 years of locomotive evolution is on display in Duluth as Northern's Pacific's first locomotive the Minnetonka (Smith & Porter 1870) poses next to one of NP's last locomotives SD45 3617 ... (more)
Pennsy E7 strikes a pose at the railroad museum of Pennsylvania.
A pair of KCS EMD's and a SOO/CP EMD combo layover on the old intermodal ramp at Knoche Yard in Kansas City.
Under a downpour, a TGV going to Paris meets the 4-8-2 "241-P-17" going to Lyon on the Dombes line. Apologies for a picture that is only 50% steam!
Restored Yard Goat 0-6-0 No. 4466 along with Southern Pacific E9 No. 6051 on display in the CSRM Roundhouse.