Crank up the heat. The Strasburg Railroad's night hostler "dials up the thermostat" with a shovelful of the coal to keep the engine house bearable on a chilly February evening. Although th... (more)
With its old pantograph removed (and sitting in the left foreground), Amtrak AEM7 909 is resting before having its pantograph replaced by the hard-working shop crew at Wilmington. With the AEM7's ... (more)
An array of power sits outside the Amtrak Wilmington shops getting ready to be inspected (a lot shorter of a line than at the DMV). From left to right: AMTK GP15 rebuild 576, MARC AEM7 4903, AMTK ... (more)
An Amtrak AEM7 and some HHP-8's are in the shop for inspection, including MARC HHP-8 4910. To the far right is AMTK GP38H-3 524. Photo taken with supervision and permission.
Inside the Cheyenne, Wyoming, roundhouse on March 25, 2013, Union Pacific’s two E9As wait for another season of pulling passenger trains. Both were built in 1955, and in the early ’90s, UP sen... (more)