A "Baby Huey" in the Bull Ring... One of eSPee's three dual-engined U50s awaits its fate in the "Boneyard" section of the Bull Ring. It was delivered as #8502 in June of 1964 and retired in Januar... (more)

"Field of Trains" - always thought I'd write a "Field of Trains movie one day, but I think that may be a pipe dream. Still, that's exactly what this soon to be removed image is of, those are all f... (more)

The picture prop cab of AC4400CW #767 from Unstoppable now rests in an old gas station (that was later a cafe for a while) near the movie train headquarters, the Fillmore & Western.

A little over a year ago I posted the TriX Pan version I took of this shot with my dad's Argus/Cosina. Here's the Kodachrome taken with my Fujica ST-801. This was the view from the footbridge that... (more)

This was once the Pacific Electric bridge across the Santa Ana River, carrying Big Red Cars from San Bernardino to Redlands, as well as juice jacks dragging strings of orange filled box cars. Toda... (more)

Wish I'd had a wide-angle to capture the cranes of destruction too while Union Pacific DD35 #75B spent it's last hours on the planet at "Scraporano." Build at LaGrange in May of 1964, this unit wa... (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)

Two sets of FL9s and commuter cars rest out the weekend at the classic New York Central Poughkeepsie station. These were among the few Penn Central engines with any color to them, having been pain... (more)

Union Pacific's El Segundo Local heads east from its namesake town, passing a cement plant that is not railroad served. This job's power is left unattended during off hours and the local taggers h... (more)

Sometimes when you are trackside you see something that can't be... like this NJDOT E8 on the old CNJ Main. Conrail did not use E8s on this line, and even though they were maintained at Elizabeth... (more)

Going to GW and living in Georgetown, I had witnessed the B&O Georgetown local from the inside of a Metro Bus on K Street at night. But this was the only time I saw it in daylight. Here it is pass... (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)

In the late 1970s the M&E became home to National Locomotive Company, a rebuilder of used ALCOs (possibly for Suriname). The M&E's RS1 and S4 shared their engine house with hulks of Norfolk & West... (more)

CSX Q438 a Hamlet, NC, Rocky Mount NC, Richmond VA, Baltimore MD, Selkirk NY mixed freight is crossing over 9th Street SW in Washington, DC, as seen from Room 15-111 of the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel. V... (more)

A wreck on the River Line shut the entire line down on January 27, 1979. What looks like a snow covered path in front of the auto carrier is actually the ROW. The tracks have been removed as part ... (more)