Rail King RK 320 No. 96 switches a freshly-painted C&NW covered hopper at Union Pacific’s De Soto car shops at De Soto, Missouri, on September 29, 2011. This Cummins-powered mobile railcar mover... (more)

The former ATSF art-deco style station in La Plata, MO is still maintained and operated by Amtrak as a twice-a-day station stop for the Southwest Chief.

Smaller power on this year's CP holiday trains. Both the Canadian and American versions of CP's holiday train will have GP20C-ECO leaders, and here we see CP 2249 in charge of the American ... (more)

With the derail up and the BARSDG moving slowly on the right, this uniquely Santa Fe GP60M locomotive takes a rest on the engine track at the yard in San Diego.

Resembling the glory days of when Santa Fe was running the show, La Junta's yard is full of a few trains this afternoon waiting for crews to move them to Denver. This scene of a yard with life is... (more)

From this vantage point, you can see how the Type F (top, as indicated by the 'F70DE' lettering cast into it, Type H couplers have an 'H' cast into them) and Type E (bottom) couplers differ extens... (more)

The 01416 was part of a seventy car caboose class built by the Burnham Shops in Denver beginning in 1940. These seventy cabooses are distinguishable by the use of an all riveted steel sheathing. ... (more)

Having broken down a majority of its train from Barstow, the BNSF 7774 shoves back further into the yard to sort more cars.

FEC 813 brings up the tail of 7 new FEC GEVO's in tow (810, 807, 811, 802, 801, 800 & 813) behind the road power of Q357-25 at Boughtonville, OH on their way to Willard where another train will fo... (more)

CSX Q357-25 with 7 new FEC GEVO's in tow (810, 807, 811, 802, 801, 800 & 813) is rolling into New London, OH on their way to Willard where another train will forward them south to their new home i... (more)

Surrounded by a sea of eager people waiting to see Santa, the 72nd Annual Santa Clause Special comes down into Fort Blackmore, Virginia led by a Huntington Rebuild.

As usual, a large crowd gathered to greet the 72nd CSX Santa Train in the small historic town of Dante. Also on hand was Worlds Miss Virginia Tourism 2015.

On Monday, November 24, Florida East Coast Railway’s first pair of GEVO ES44C4 locomotives – FEC 803 and 804 – spent the day with shop forces doing familiarization training, but they would b... (more)

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This NEC veteran takes a moment at the motor pit before its next trip. ACS-64s are quickly replacing older electrics and it will only be a matter of time before this one is retired.