What used to be the hump yard at UP's now-shuttered Neff Yard in Kansas City, MO is now packed to the gills with units that are now considered to be surplus. Shutting down humps and storing locom... (more)

Clean Up, Track 3...

At 8:40 PM on the evening of July 5, 2019, westbound manifest 34A derailed the first 11 cars as it entered the main arc of Horseshoe Curve. The three locomotives... (more)

The Mississippi River has caused alot of headaches in the Midwest with the railroads this spring. The river crested at Burlington, IA, (19 miles upstream) on 6-02 was the 3rd highest crest on reco... (more)

Union Pacific 'Employee Appreciation' SD70ACe 1111, formerly UP 8362, on display at 'Home Plate' in Omaha along with UP 4141.

Likely one of the tightest curves 4014 will encounter on its journey is this section on BNSF in Superior, Wisconsin. Here the massive 4-8-8-4 is "walked" through the curve with a little ... (more)

Only the cab of Norfolk Southern 8941 remains at the Cresson Steel Company, were I counted 10 NS engines are in various stages of been scrapped. Too bad the cab of NS 8941 isn't destined for some... (more)

Blue hour Saturday morning as Big Boy slumbers at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth after its run up BNSF from the Twin Cities.

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)

Hallett Dock's ex-CP switcher positions ore cars for loading of limestone as CN's vessel Presque Isle is moored undergoing maintenance. CN has received STB approval to purchase this dock from Hall... (more)

The early morning sun rises on a plethora of stored locomotives in the West Yard.

The Mississippi River has caused alot of headaches in the Midwest with the railroads this spring. The river crested at Burlington, IA, (19 miles upstream) on 6-02 was the 3rd highest crest on reco... (more)

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)

The first run of NSM's former CSX SD70ACe models heads east toward Silver Bay with taconite loads. NSM expects five of these to replace four leased CEFX SD9043MACs. For now the mining railroad's S... (more)

The objects in this scene doesn't particularly give a clue that it's April of 2020, but we're in the cab of 1948 built Clinchfield F3A 800 and social distancing in Blair, Tennessee at the Norfolk ... (more)

Looking deep into Thomasville Yard we find a former Seaboard Coast Line SD40-2, a Conrail bay window caboose, and a former Pennsylvania Jordan spreader. CSX 8044 has been working with the mainten... (more)