An unlikely C30-7/T6 combination idles in the Norfolk & Western engine servicing area at Lamberts Point, Virginia.

Positioned at the engine servicing area at Lamberts Point, Virginia a Norfolk & Western RSD12 stands between a GP9 and an SD45.

A Norfolk & Western caboose has found its way to Conrail’s Allentown yard, most likely on a Delaware & Hudson train. Class C-9 caboose 557784 was built as Nickel Plate 784.

Pickens Railroad VO-660 2 trundles past the wood chip plant that provides some of its lifeblood at Pickens, South Carolina.

South Carolina shortline Pickens Railway had two Baldwin switchers on its roster. Former Youngstown Sheet & Tube S8 701 was purchased a a backup for VO-660 2, and is seen here at Pickens, South Ca... (more)

Orange is the New Blue

Contemporary railfans are accustomed to seeing photos of orange U18B’s pulling trains of South Caroline shortline Pickens Railway. In the 1970’s and 1980... (more)

A visit to the Clinchfield yard in Bostic, North Carolina turned up this unidentified GE 80-ton centercab.

A New Jersey Transit U34CH 4168 shares the yard in Dover, New Jersey with a string of former Erie Lackawanna MU cars.

A pair of New Jersey Transit roster mates spend the weekend at Dover, New Jersey. NJT U34CH 4168 has been pulling commuter trains in North Jersey since NJDOT underwrote its purchase by the Erie La... (more)

The crew of Conrail local WJAL-18 has dropped its train at Dover, New Jersey, and is passing a parked NJT train heading to the former DL&W station. After they exchange paperwork with the operator,... (more)

An unmistakable Maine Central caboose punctuates a train leaving Rigby Yard in Portland, Maine. The trainman is striking a pose that would probably be frowned on in today’s safety culture.

Portland Terminal S4 1062 moves a lone side-dump car as it switches Rigby Yard in Portland, Maine..

Portland Terminal S1 1005 waits on shop trucks at the Rigby roundhouse while the forces inside are doing truck/wheel work.

Three Lake Superior & Ishpeming alligators show that they’re hard at work at the ore docks in Marquette, Michigan.

A Lake Superior & Ishpeming “hill job” pulls a half-dozen empties from the ore docks in Marquette, Michigan. After they clear the right switch, they will back them onto the train of empties th... (more)