A Roger Puta Photograph

HUTCHINSON KS May 1981 -- Hutchinson & Northern S1 No. 4 awaits a crew to begin its daily chores. Myself and fellow railfan Jeff Prince spent the night driving from Norman OK to Hutchinson just to... (more)

Central Maine & Quebec Railway has finished painting its ten 6-axle ex-Canadian Pacific Railway SD40-2F and released the final unit in a special Bangor & Aroostook heritage tribue scheme. (This w... (more)

D.R. Hare photo.

Fresh from Topeka with it's new "Topeka" cab as well as a fresh coat of paint CF7 2485 rests on Hobart diesel service track seven before going to work.

Lots of rebuilt GP60M-3's at Barstow, seen here as 116 is the point unit on the Cadiz Local.

BNSF 142 in fresh paint at Kaiser Yard.

Hello Georgous!

The Handy Dandy Railroad, encircling the Denton FarmPark, did a "dandy" job restoring High Point, Thomasville & Denton 70-ton 202 to her nearly "as delivered" appeara... (more)

Red Demonstrator

Following extensive tests on the Aberdeen & Carolina Western during the summer of 2008 (with a pair of former SP SD45T-2s), Caterpillar-powered Progress Rail Service... (more)

The RS-1 era on GM&O/ICG was just about over when I shot 1112 on a nice fall day in Montgomery.

It was nice to know and appreciate that this would probably be the last I saw of a large number of Alcos. I had several days in town, working nights and plenty of time to prowl around. The yard ... (more)

UP 6247 (ex SP 279) one of the latest repaints fresh from North Little Rock, AR 6/10 and after a second trip through the paint booth is on point along with NS 3634 & UP 6443 leadling 102lds, 2888t... (more)

Introducing the first Lake State Railway MP15AC, LSRC #1501! Stripes are no stranger to the first Lake State Railway end cab as it was built as M-K-T #57 in 1980 and later went on to become Union... (more)

BNSF 1654 the day it was delivered to Pasco, you could smell the fresh paint!

Right out of the shop, freshly rebuilt GP33ECO 4726 started its service life as Southern GP50 7083 in May, 1981. Unit was being readied for forwarding to Conway where it was to be used in local se... (more)