Green Machine. Battery powered NS 999, classed BP4, goes to work for the first time in Rose Yard in Altoona. The unit was built using the frame of former NS GP38 2911, ex CR 7732, ne... (more)

This is not a locomotive. It is movie prop for the new Christopher Nolan film, INCEPTION. If you look closely at the fake Blomberg trucks, you can see the tires of the three-axle Peterbilt that is... (more)

Street running? Not really... this is a movie prop for the new Leonardo DiCaprio sci-fi fantasty film, INCEPTION, which was on rubber wheels and could move at a pretty good speed. Wish I could ha... (more)

This experimental lightweight articulated trainset was built by Baldwin and Pullman in the 1950s for the New York Central for operation between Cleveland and Cincinnati, OH. The train was not a su... (more)

The Ugliest Diesel Ever? Some might consider the CF7 to be the ugliest diesel locomotive ever built, others the BQ23-7, but for my money this contraption based on an E8(B) when seen from t... (more)

Spotted this odd duck outside a plant, it used to be an alco but it looks like it's been heavily modified over the years.

Apparently, this was an Alco RS-3 that has been repowered from an EMD GP9.

The odd couple. At the end of North Platte's Rail Fest, the locomotives that were on display in downtown were brought back to Bailey Yard and sent on their way. Before leaving town, brand n... (more)

This is the only one of these that NS has, and its rather hard to get an uncoupled photo of it since they usually have a loco attached ahead of it to power the train. It was built from NW SD35 #1... (more)

One of the most unique trolley cars in existence is Montreal Street Railway Open Car #2. This car has tiered seating and has controls at one end only. It was built in 1906 and operated in the s... (more)

Narrow Gauge White Pass 114 rebuilt at CEECO, after 9/3/06 derailment near Skagway Alaska, on it's way to a ship in Tacoma. Cli... (more)

MPEX 5000 sits at Martin during its short stay on the Utah Railway.

I rode #13, a mail train, early morning out of Newark to Altoona, my usual method of getting there. On my first trip there, our power on the electrified segment was a 2-D-2 electric class R1, #49... (more)

I found this funky looking thing sitting at the Navajo Generating Station. It was remanufactured at MK's Boise shops in 1975 from a U25B and is the sole diesel-electric engine operated by the BML... (more)

CNJ Baldwin 2000-series "double-ender" moves about the massive interlocking at the Jersey City Terminal as Gotham City looms in the background. Ansco color/color corrected in P/S