Once a railroad town…
Salida was once a railroad town, where Rio Grande had a large dual gauge yard, two roundhouses, company hospital and many other functions necessary for a busy divis... (more)

A bitter cold winter day has caused a rail break on the Wisconsin Central main line entering Shops Yard near the Subway Road grade crossing at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on December 11, 1994. c... (more)

D&SNG 1202 enroute from South Carolina to Durango Co.

A EMD veteran brings loaded Savannah, GA bound coke train W221 through the first of many cuts on the Southside of Cumberland Mountain. The howl of the 40's dynamics could be heard for miles before... (more)

Coming to a CN Yard near you! I believe this is an new mother/slug set that in an old CN paint scheme. Not sure what the model designations are. The 7600 is lettered as GY-430A and the 600 as ... (more)

Union Pacific The Big Boy is just departing Denver for Cheyenne in the midst of a classic November, Colorado Wyoming blizzard. By the time the Big Boy reaches Wyoming nearly a foot of snow had com... (more)

CN Celebrates the 25th Anniversary of its Privatization!

On November 17th 1995, CN’s shares were listed on the TSX and NYSE. Since then, CN has acquired the Illinois Cen... (more)

A sign of the times, dozens of locomotives are sitting in Roanoke yard sidelined. Between the implementation of precision scheduled railroading and the decrease in traffic from COVID 19, the amoun... (more)

The Lake Superior Railroad Museum put together a small train for a media event welcoming its newest addition, former NP passenger GP9 number 245 (ex-ILSX 1382 Dakota Quality Grain). This view is a... (more)

After an incident with a RC move, CP G41 sits in Bensenville yard with 7 derailed cars, a totaled UP SD40, and many dozers cleaning up the mess...

CN 8952 was repainted into GTW colors by AMP shops in Danville NY, and arrived on CN M36831 11 this morning in Montreal, QC. This is rumored to be the first unit out of 18 to be painted in heritag... (more)

Mixed freight from BNSF's Northtown Yard heads west over Lake Ashtabula on its way to Pasco, Washington. Completed in 1912 by the Great Northern Railway, the Karnak Crossing passes over the Sheyen... (more)

The power for CP transfer job G41 (CP Bensenville to UP Proviso) sits after a manned Canadian Pacific switching job crashed into them. Once crews removed the cars that piled onto the 1885, the dam... (more)

Even in the 21st Century, the Union Pacific Railroad can still put together the most impressive passenger trains of any railroad in North America. And here is where it all happens – The Union Pac... (more)

The locomotive line has increased since last time I was at Donkey Creek Yard in Rozet, Wyoming a couple years ago. Located on the north end of the Powder River Basin, hundreds of locomotives are b... (more)