Former MARC 69 has been totally rebuilt from the rail up and painted in a special CSX scheme to match the Geometry Train she will be assigned to. Office car paint was used on the locomotive, wh... (more)

An eastbound BNSF freight crosses Noxon Bridge west of Noxon, Montana, just after sunrise on October 2, 2014. Fog is quickly burning off over the Clark Fork this cool morning on Montana Rail Linkā... (more)

To celebrate the centennial of the opening of its Chicago to Aurora, Illinois line, the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy very temporarily painted its queen of fan trips, Northern 5632, gold. The scen... (more)

This second shot of a series (see image 500799) shows engine 507 parked at Amtrak's service facility in Chicago. An Amtrak crew member is about to re-position the unit so that Mike Danneman can ph... (more)

The Rock Lives! Buried deep in the Lange-Stegmann Company grain facility in Saint Louis, Missouri, on October 3rd, 2014, was a real "WABAC Machine" moment - a string with eight (ex) Rock Is... (more)

It appears that Terminal Railroad Association of Saint Louis is experimenting with a new truck arrangement on their SD40-2s! (Or is it an N-scale body shell on HO trucks?) TRRA SD40-2 3004 sits ... (more)

September 29, 2014. Moments prior to departure, Conductor Montoya is seen checking his pocket watch as his train, Amtrakā€™s Southwest Chief idles alongside the station platform at Lamy, NM.

October in the Railroad Earth - The Southwest Chief awaits departure on the first day of October, in the Autumn of 2014.

The sky brightens up as the sun pokes over the hills to melt the overnight frost and light up CN Q106 ... (more)

A eastbound grain train looks to have picked the siding switch below the famed New River bridge. Most of the derailment has been cleaned up but these two derailed cars are going to take some work ... (more)

The IAIS operated a special train to move CN 2191 from Chicago to NRE's Silvis, IL shop. CN 2191 was involved in a wreck at Slinger, WI and is being taken to NRE for evaluation.

Union Pacific Maintenance of Way forces remove and replace a section of 39 ft. stick rail along Main 2 on the former D&RGW in Spanish Fork Canyon.

Having seen better days, 550 rests (and rusts) for the night in Export, PA

Red River & Gulf Locomotive 400 Baldwin 4-6-0 sits in the same spot as she sat on Dec 9th, 1952 when they let her fire die for the last time. It was used on the RR&G and also the Crowley Lumber Co... (more)

The IAIS operated a special train to move CN 2191 from Chicago to NRE's Silvis, IL shop. CN 2191 was involved in a wreck at Slinger, WI and is being taken to NRE for evaluation.