Amtrak 116 gets some of the bugs washed off before leading the final leg of the Coast Starlight out of Portland into Seattle.

Thirty-five year old snoot
Built in March 1978, Union Pacific SD40-2 No. 3416 still looks pretty good for its age, as seen at North Yard in Denver, Colorado, on October 14, 2012. Anothe... (more)

A locomotive built in 1966 in France gain a new painted face in Romania for GFR (Grup Feroviar Roman), a company that bought Romanian Rail Freight Operator - CFR Marfa - for 202 million Euro. A... (more)

It's lettered "Greenbrier, Cheat, & Elk" on the tender tank, but the front number plate says "Cass Railroad." Shay No. 1 was painted red and green and wore "Cass, Greenbrier, Cheat, & Bald Knob S... (more)

After a new coat of paint and its nose emblem added, this former Pennsy E8 looks great in the Southern Railway scheme as it sits at the Grants Mill Station on a foggy morning. All that’s left i... (more)

Its journey is just about done, as engineer Ed Dickens brings Santa Fe 3751 (owned by the San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society) to a stop on the old Santa Fe turntable at Amtrak's Redondo Ju... (more)

There is still pride on the Southern Pacific as shown after the crew cleaned the very dirt nose of the SP 9255, revealing the SP. The crew was waiting for a helper set to attach to the rear of th... (more)

New York Central's #999 - the Empire Express on display at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.

The colorful nose of Kansas City Southern GE ES44AC No. 4773 basks in the warm Texas sunshine at Kendleton yard on the afternoon of March 12, 2013.

Thief River Falls will always be Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie territory no matter what rebuilding and repainting programs Canadian Pacific has planned. These two SOO Line GP38-2's idl... (more)

Look! There just ahead!! It's a bird, it's a train - it's Aerotrain! Built by GM to "save the industry" in 1955, the train was lightweight and streamlined utilizing a set of modified GM Truck &... (more)

Show Me Your Nose. BNSF 7007 rests alone in the morning light on the team track in Aberdeen. Later in the day, 7007 will accompany a pair of Dash 9's and pick up a westbound grain train. No... (more)

The face of a warrior: CP 9250, an RDC-4 built by Budd, wears the "war paint" scheme.

Definitely not something you'd want to be in front of! MLW built this steam rotary plow for CN in 1965.