X310 Crosses The Spuzzum Creek Bridge With A Colourful Consist.

All lettering covered. Carrying export locomotives with trucks on heavy duty flatcars this high and wide was probably destined for Norfolk. As yet unable to determine where the locomotives are b... (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)

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)

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)

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)

A brand new AC44C6M rebuild leads a Herzog ballast train north at Arcadia, VA along the Roanoke district.

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.

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)

Watching and control,my son Matias taking his first steps as a fireman assistant, something that the writer did 30 years ago.

It takes some dexterity and flexibility to install a new water pump inside Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6227 inside the locomotive shop South Morrill, Nebraska, on September 15, 2017. Due of the ... (more)

D&RGW train 18, The California Zephyr, is seen at Dotsero Colorado in 1952. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

The Northern Pacific Railway continued to use FT's long after other railroads had traded theirs for 2nd-generation diesel locomotives. The Tacoma Division was the home of the remaining FTs in t... (more)

AREZ 5931 in fresh paint, south of Corvallis.