Southbound at Race St. , with short train.

The SY0418 is crossing the main road of Hanwang. It is one of the last active standard gauged steam locomotives in Sichuan. This locomotive stopped in the middle of September 2013

This automotive repo train skirts around the mid day Surfliner on a rather hot December day.

Nr. 412 is one of the engines involved in the 2006 Socompa pass accident, after which Belgrano Cargas initially refused to repair and return the locomotive. In 2013 we could see it in action, thou... (more)

Despite being owned by Southern Pacific at this time, the Tennessee Pass Helper Terminal at Minturn, Colorado, was filled with Denver & Rio Grande Western power, including this quartet of SD40T-2s... (more)

A somewhat grubby 73201 'Broadlands' in its heritage BR blue livery leads a rail head treatment train towards Haydons road on the Wimbledon loop line. These trains run in many parts of the UK duri... (more)

In the last light of the day spare power has just arrived back in Oakridge from Cascade Summit. These locomotives will be added as DPUs on trains headed back up the hill. 5755 is covered in soot f... (more)

DPUs crossing the slide near Fields, Oregon on the Cascade Subdivision. DPUs here take a beating from the smoke in the many tunnels between Oakridge and Cascade Summit.

UP 7643 leads 4 NS units on the ZLCAI.

UP 7368 shoves on an eastbound coal train.

A battered SD45R has just led a manifest freight over Soldier Summit and into Helper, Utah. Trailing the Kodachrome-painted SP diesel is a unit from the recently merged Rio Grande and another SP u... (more)

Amtrak's southbound Silver Meteor passes a NJ Transit stopped at the Broad Street Elizabeth station.

"In Need of a Cleaning"

Those trackside without a scanner on this day would've had no problem identifying this train as 23Z for the crew had some fun and wrote the symbol of the ... (more)

"They pull the same tonnage, dirty or clean" (attributed to a Clinchfield operating official from that era). The Clinchfield Railroad's diesels looked great when they were freshly painte... (more)

Old and Dirty The Last Locomotive in the (corroded) XMPR1 Color Scheme.