The Silvis switch crew works on putting together the outbound CBBI with a pair of IAIS ES44AC's while a loaded NS haulage grain train from Des Moines to Peoria waits for a crew to take it east wit... (more)

OmniTRAX's 6051 (SD40-3) crosses in front of an old grain elevator-turned art project in Fort Collins, Colorado.

NHRR 1972 Ex CP SD40-2 displaying a colorful array of battle wounds, as it still goes strong in 2017 as it drill's out some cars for customer on the PN J930 Drill.

Departing Visitor

Haines & Kibblehouse's latest locomotive addition, GP11 #1850 (ex-Allegheny Valley 2008, built as UP GP7 #122) has just been released from the paint shop at Juniata... (more)

Excursions on the former Reading Perkiomen Branch between Emmaus and Pennsburg, Pennsylvania have been operated by three different railroads since the line was spun off by Conrail in the 1980’s.... (more)

Waiting the passing of VIA 84, GEXR 582 sits in the weeds along side the main with 2 520 ton steam generators destined for Hamilton where they will be shipped up the Mississippi

Three of the Huntsville and Madison County Railroad Authority's locomotives are parked along Heart of Huntsville Drive in downtown Huntsville, AL.

Awaiting truck work, Prairie Central GE U30B sits outside the C&IM’s shop at Springfield, Illinois, in March 1984. Prairie Central Railway was a short-lived short line that operated on former Co... (more)

Bug Slug

Countless Alco switchers were rebuilt with Caterpillar or Cummins engines, and sold to small mine operations throughout Appalachia. Most had their cabs removed or sealed s... (more)

I always wanted to get a shot of this bridge and was lucky enough to run into this train just west of here and setup the shot. From what I was told the paint job on the 432 is about a week old. An... (more)

Toledo, Peoria & Western Alco RS-11 400 exhales as it and an SW1500 mate slowly propel an eastbound freight across the flatlands at Sheldon, IL, at dusk on a summer evening. TP&W 400 has been pres... (more)

Stone Mountain Park's 6147 (a former Southern FP7) leads its excursion train through the pine forests on a muggy July afternoon.

What once was the front of a former Southern Pacific Cadillac is now reduced to a lawn ornament for a local tourist outfit. The 4405, as far as I know, was one of the Port of Tillamook Railroad's ... (more)

Port of Tillamook Bay revisited. Nearly a decade after the washouts that severed the lines connection out of Tillamook, former SP 5418 shows its SP heritage as the POTB plain peels.

No question about the wye – The protect set for weekend service sits on the Montauk Wye on the morning of 7/16/2017, DM30AC 500 facing east. The wye, which is still in service, sits at the rail... (more)