Climbing Cajon Pass as it heads east from Los Angeles to Barstow, and passing through Cajon Pass' iconic Mormon Rocks area, is BNSF Railway train U-LACBAR5-30Z, a "Special Unit Train" co... (more)

The elements have not been kind to the 603, the sole Amtrak E60 in preservation.

LNER 60007 'Sir Nigel Gresley', passes Moorgates with the 1135 Grosmont - Pickering train during the North Yorks Moors Railway's LNER Gala Weekend of 4th-6th April 2008

Again....getting more than two units on the head end of a mainline CPKC train is a bit of a coup.

NS AC44C6M 4620 and Wells Fargo SD70MAC 8871 lead loaded ethanol train 6K4 upgrade on Track 3 at Lilly, PA. NS is reportedly starting to gather the Wells Fargo SD70MACs to return them to the less... (more)

BNSF 4702 leads a Long Beach Pier E to Alliance, TX stack train around the curve leading into Crozier Canyon. When I saw this train on the lineup, I thought the 4702 was still painted in the iconi... (more)

Early Morning Steam. Dressed up in FEC garb, the beautifully restored U.S. Sugar Light Pacific 148 does a runby early on the morning of a photo charter hosted by the railroad.

The hottest train on the system in these parts. The Denver to Salt Lake Z train. Unfortunately 6916 isn't a DD40X on the UP roster. But it does have quite the history, and as one point was almost ... (more)

LTV/Erie RS-11 7205 works a mine train at their facility in Hoyt Lakes, MN. in September of 1987. These units were seldom photographed as they stayed near the mine and rarely ventured out on the m... (more)

Southern GP50 7059 and two trailing SD40-2's lead a coal empty north towards Atlanta.

B&O 7610, part of a 3-unit helper set, is westbound–returning to its Brunswick base after shoving a freight over Barnesville Hill on the “Met”. The camera position is near C&O Canal Lock 29.... (more)

Apparently already retired, one of the three-engine Gensets which didn't work out. The NREs weren't exactly ugly but very few seem to be picked up on the used market. I remember when we all shak... (more)

The recently released CSX heritage unit the Pere Marquette makes an appearance on M583-06 as they head towards Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Just after 8am on Sunday over a decade ago, the conductor of 450 chows down on some breakfast as the Ex. Guilford unit CP 4650 in a rare move takes a short 450 long hood forward north through Coho... (more)

While all eyes were on a certain steam locomotive, I couldn't help but notice these veterans nearby. There is still a fairly remarkable fleet of them in service today, thankfully, but most are in... (more)