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Bakken crude destined for Reybold, Delaware coasts down the .6% grade into Des Lacs, ND under the careful control of Engineer Kerry Picek. Kerry is obeying inst... (more)

Take the long way home. Despite its status as a high priority passenger special, UP OCS PJCME2 29 has encountered a plethora of TRRA-induced track maintenance during its brief trip through ... (more)

Salvage company Carney & Hancock workers transload a damaged FGDA covered hopper, moving the corn from the railcar to truck. This was in RI's Short Line Yard in Des Moines, IA back in the summer ... (more)

"John Deere Express"

A very unusual duo sands the rails through a work area at Catskill NY. The Geep is former Union Pacific and the CEFX 2814 SD40-2 rebuild is former CN.

Northbound Coke train K209 had a smoldering car, the trainmaster was originally going to just let it go on it's merry way but finally cooler heads prevailed and the Deshler Fire Department was cal... (more)

Just west of Rocky, Colorado, on June 9, 2014, a Union Pacific Freightliner truck equipped with a Builtrite Handler lifts the rails for some hand tamping of the track and another very temporary fi... (more)

This is a view of a section of track on the Union Pacific Moffat Tunnel Subdivision main line west of Rocky, Colorado, on June 9, 2014. After the Colorado floods of September 2013, a 200-foot sect... (more)

The Wabash/Southern combo lead NS train 20R east as the pass in front of First Energy Stadium in downtown Cleveland.

With the dormant and stripped former DM&IR ore dock No. 5 as a backdrop, a large front end loader fills side dump cars at Hallett Dock. The limestone is used in the production of taconite pellets ... (more)

Former USAF 1606 has been purchased at auction and is being lowered onto the depressed deck railcar for its upcoming journey to Essex, CT to the Valley Railroad.

The crew works late into the night to clear a derailment in the WSOR yard in Janesville out front of the roundhouse. The covered hopper is SOU 92397 and was loaded with sand.

Norfolk Southern train 11V passes an NS maintenece of way tractor equipped with a snow-blower attachment working on the railroad access road between Altoona and Gallitzen, Pennsylvania. During in... (more)

Two original Santa Fe motors move southbound on NS 229, crossing the FEC Jax Drawbridge. The engines came back as 4th and 5th engines on NS 210, and were set out at Simpson yard.

Two officials inspect the damage to the cab of Chicago and North Western EMD SD38-2 No. 6651. A switching mishap where two trains tried to occupy a diamond at the same time is being cleaned up at ... (more)