PHLX SD40-2 8 sits quietly at the company's Oban, SK elevator.

Various CN locomotives wait for their next assignment at Swan Landing.

A pair of Mission Mountain Railroad GP39-2s await their next trip to the BNSF interchange at Stryker.

WAMX GP39-2 3942 sits quietly in the yard at Eureka, MT.

CN's WC heritage engine heads up a string of power at Swan Landing.

Clouds nicely frame the long abandoned Pool 8 elevators while idle road power waits for its call west with grain empties.

A triple set of CP yard power (unfortunately with the barn on the wrong end!) idles on the pool 8 shop track between assignments in front of the former elevator.

Belt Railway of Chicago Alco C424s and EMD SW9s and SW1200s congregate on the west side of the locomotive shop at Clearing Yard in Bedford Park, Illinois, on December 5, 1987.

Resting in between potash dumping duties, heritage 7018 shows off some Canadian wildlife between the golden rodent painted on her face, and the Canada Goose taking a break on her rear cooling fans... (more)

Santa Fe bought 40 EMD F45s in mid-1968, mostly for freight service, although the last 20 had steam lines and could be found pulling passenger trains for a few years too. An F45 is essentially a c... (more)

The platforms at the fuel track in Union Pacific’s locomotive facility at North Yard in Denver, Colorado, are a slushy mess on April 15, 2013. Two workers discuss tasks, the weather, the railroa... (more)

A drop table operator checks the progress of a new axle being switched out on Union Pacific EMD SD70M No. 4831. The locomotive is having its fifth wheel set/motor assembly replaced at UP’s Kansa... (more)

When it’s snowing this hard, you better hang on during switching moves, as this hostler does at Union Pacific’s North Yard fuel track in Denver, Colorado, on April 15, 2013.

As fast as you can sweep or dig them out, the switches at Union Pacific’s North Yard fuel track will have filled back in during the next move. This storm dumped nearly a foot of snow in Denver, ... (more)

A showcase of different CP power rests between jobs in Westfort. Headed up by 2 barns, one sporting its former owners colors, the other wearing its new colors, but which is which?