“Five Day Work Week”
Four of the five F9PHs rostered by the Maryland Rail Commuter Service (MARC) are laying over for the weekend in the yard at Brunswick, late in the afterno... (more)

A New Lease On Life. The Woodstown Central Railroad announced on Friday, September 15, 2023, that it has secured the lease of former Reading FP7 902 (EMD, 5/1950) from the Reading Company T... (more)

Sonora Baja California EMD F7A 2101 gets looked after at the pit in Benjamin Hill Sonora in April 1979

For one day, to join N&W #611's return to the rails, famed #501 was dressed to play the part of an ACL locomotive on loan to the Norfolk & Western, replicating the 1958-59 period where such a thin... (more)

With no passenger duties to fulfill this unit is leading an EB freight and the herald indicates the Barring era. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection. Wouldn't I love to have that cast ... (more)

In the pre-Barringer paint scheme a SB train is rattling along on the less than great rail, probably near Greenville. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

Sometime in the late 1960s a couple of units in the original "Southern Belle" scheme share duties. KCS 25 was a "rebuild" of an E6A which had apparently been wrecked. As I un... (more)

In UP territory this set of power was for an unknown train. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

A pair of EMD F-units, belonging to Pioneer Railroad Equipment Company, sit in the engine facility in Gettysburg PA. PREX F7A 402 was built in December 1949, and is the former Keokuk Junction Rai... (more)

In a panned photograph, LTV Mining (former Erie Mining Company) EMD F9A No 4212 leads an empty ore train west through Cramer, Minnesota, on September 24, 1994.

10 years before the paint scheme reappeared, somewhat, on CSXT's fleet, this former CSXT motor wore the whole coat. It now lives on restored as CRR 800.

CaterParrott Railnet's E8 wears a Georgia Railroad nose herald for a few minutes, showing us what a GARR E8 might have looked like.

"The Logger" is running west to Potlatch where it will join the local from Lewiston and head back to Marshall. #6304 was on lease to Washington & Idaho for quite some time.

Don't Fall For The Trap! On the dark and overcast evening of June 26, 2021, the Mass Coastal/Cape Cod Railroad dinner train is seen crossing the Back River in Bourne, Massachusetts with Mas... (more)

CB&Q 9911A, the only remaining E-5A diesel, leads the Nebraska Zephyr trainset onto the Illinois Railway Museum's mainline during the annual Diesel Days event.