Boston & Maine SW9 1223 was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in January 1952. EMD built 815 of these 1200 horsepower switchers – 786 for American owners, and 29 in Canada for ope... (more)

General Motors Electro-Motive Division built just seven SD45X diesels in 1970 – four demonstrators and three for Southern Pacific Railroad. EMDX 4201-4203 were built with SP's typical array of ... (more)

From time to time, some railroads get rid of surplus power, and other railroads pick up other roads' locomotives. In the 1980s, Illinois Central Gulf had excess GP38ACs and the Missouri-Kansas-Te... (more)

Switching passenger cars in Seattle is Amtrak SW1200 (SSB1200) 565. Built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe SW1200 2439 in June 1959, this locomotive was reb... (more)

So Much Has Changed in 38 Years (from Today!)

An eastbound Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe piggyback train stops in San Bernardino for a crew change. This train, most likely symbolle... (more)

Working the Roseville Yard's hump are a Southern Pacific "Cow & Calf" set. SP 1112 is an SW8 (ex-SP 4607), and SP 1150 is a TR6B (the former SP 4700). These two are painted in the Espe... (more)

Northern Pacific Railway FTA 5401A, built by Electro-Motive Corporation (EMC) in March 1944 as NP 6001A, was photographed in Sumas WA along with an FTB, a GP7 and another A-B set of FTs. Sumas is... (more)

Back in the Eighties, In More Ways Than One… A number of Bangor & Aroostook GP38s have gathered in the BAR's small yard in Hermon, adjacent to one of the railroad’s namesakes: Bango... (more)

Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac GP40-2s 141 and 146 lead a southbound piggyback train through rural Caroline County in the commonwealth of Virginia. (Penola, Virginia – April 1984) John H... (more)

Lamoillle Valley Railroad RS-3s 7801 (the former Delaware & Hudson 4068) and 7803 (ex-D&H 4071) were photographed by Ed Robinson in Morrisville, Vermont, in June 1983. (Craig Walker Collection)

An otherwise nice broadside of the Seaboard Coast Line U36B 1776, the first of hundreds of locomotives painted for the American Bicentennial in the 1970s and operating an all-Bicentennial train (2... (more)

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Delaware & Hudson painted two locomotives in a patriotic red, white and blue paint scheme: U23B 1776 and RS-3 ... (more)

A fan trip behind Bangor & Aroostook BL-2 557, built in April 1949, crosses a bridge in Caribou, Maine, on June 1, 1980, to show off the diesel's new paint job. John W. Held photograph,... (more)

Delaware & Hudson RS-11 5009 leads a freight through an S-curve on the Pennsylvania Division in Brandt, Pennsylvania, on June 22, 1980. John W. Held photograph, Craig Walker collection<... (more)

Three three-year-old GP40-2s lead a Boston & Maine train as it heads west alongside the Deerfield River. This line, originally built by the Troy & Greenfield Railroad in the 1840s, has a relative... (more)