Locomotives really are washed once in a while
A Union Pacific EMD SD9043MAC gets a thorough cleaning before heading into the main shop for an overhaul on Track 2 at the east side buildi... (more)

As passenger trains were cancelled everywhere a few classy looking units could still be captured. By the time I got to Wichita Falls later that year they were gone. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, fr... (more)

A quartet of grimy Southern Pacific SDs roll through the Devil's Garden. This area is a lava flow created by eruptions of nearby Mount Shasta.

Norfolk & Western 2-6-6-4 1201 leads 80 cars westward through Roanoke Virginia in 1936. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Sacrificed for structural testing, derelict VIA Rail equipment sits at CAD. At left is more ex-VIA Rail equipment - a testbed built on an LRC-3 frame.

The Oneida & Western "Green Train" passes through Atlanta with four matching SD40-2's built to L&N specs. Photo by Richard Thomason.

Salt Lake Cities North Yards dead line has shuffled around a bit since I last photographed it. It doesn't extend as far north as it once did. It is at least three deep though in places. The dead ... (more)

Minutes before the bottom was about to fallout, the power of CSX M502 (Nashville,TN-Chicago,IL) is making its way down to the drill out of the yard trk-C06 to pick up its short train out of Yard t... (more)

UP Grain train, Westbound just before sunset, a lightning show was going on in the storm moving East in the background

An unfortunate yet spectacular scene along the Lehigh River this morning. NS 9891 is the other unit. At the moment the cause of the incident is still unknown. I had the morning to myself at the ho... (more)

Union Pacific's Chicago & North Western heritage unit appears briefly between the trees on the upper part of the historic Williams Loop, located near Spring Garden, California. In a few moments it... (more)

Some rare power gathered up at the US Sugar South Shops, including an ex-SP SD40T-2, ex-SP SD40R, and an MP15T. Since the latest acquisition of USSC 6324, depicted here are the three 6-axle units ... (more)

“Lonely Survivor”
The Western Maryland Railway freight station in York, shown here on April 21, 1984, was built in 1896 for WM precursor Baltimore & Harrisburg Railway Company. The J... (more)

NS 054 seen at Chattanooga , Tn heading to Knoxville , Tn with four Ferronor locomotives bound for Chile .

CSXT 8066 leads M434 into Selkirk yard.