Union Pacific Intermodal , Eastbound at sunset with 4 units leading. Fairfax Iowa UP line.

SP 4449 is being displayed on the recently rebuilt Brooklyn Turntable. The 110 ft locomotive just barley fits on the 1924 built turntable, which overhangs the deck just slightly.

SRS 144 is tied down in Brunswick Yard as CSX M416 in the background, with the newly released CSX 1973 Chessie scheme locomotive, makes its way west towards Cumberland, Maryland.

Distributed Power on an NS coal train pushes hard toward the Gallitzin Tunnel as an RJ Corman Job grabs a train of Covered Hoppers from the Interchange at Cresson. The Corman Crew will take the tr... (more)

Photo by Howard Hutchison from my collection. Superior WV is approximately three miles east of Welch WV on the N&W Pocahontas Division. The railroad calls this Huger in the timetable. N&W Y3a 2060... (more)

SP cab-forward 4135 leads 61 cars westbound at 10 MPH, after exiting a snowshed in the vicinity of Donner Pass, on August 4th 1935. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

X310 Crosses The Spuzzum Creek Bridge With A Colourful Consist.

You Break It, You Buy It UP 6052, an AC44CWCTE, arrived at Juniata on a flatcar following a derailment in April. Since it derailed while running on an NS train, this AC44 will be repaired ... (more)

Work is well underway in Voorheesville on the former Albany Main as the land has been cleared with new ties, rails, & ballast laid along with the switch on CSX Track 2. Foundry Rod has also been r... (more)

UP Y549 (ex-C&NW 4404) is back on home rails as it switches the scrapyard in Racine, WI. in April of 2014. The S.C. Johnson Research Tower, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, looms in the background.... (more)

Covering nearly every inch of the rail but the rail head, grease has accumulated on about a 15 foot section of rail at the lubricator pumps. The grease is used to protect the wheel and rail from ... (more)

An eastbound manifest has stalled on the 1% grade of Kirkwood Hill and a pair of switchers from the Ewing Avenue Yard in St. Louis has been called in to help the train up the hill.

NWP 1922 sits with SP 4435, SP 4347, SP 4451, B&LE 716B and B&LE 718A (F-7 A and B units), plus other rolling stock that could be in museums, in Schellville, California.

Well, good news! The derail works!

Just over two hours earlier, at 7:00, this Union Pacific switch job derailed as it was bringing a cut of cars forward (eastward) to cle... (more)

There really is a guy that repairs locomotive toilets
Certainly doing a thankless job, a Union Pacific employee at the Diesel Shop in North Platte, Nebraska, repairs a locomotive toilet... (more)