Apparently the maintenance people got a little more power than they ususally have in the bureaucracy and for a few years were given their own dedicated locomotives, usually cast-offs. This one st... (more)
Assigned to Casper, Wyoming, is Burlington Northern GP9 1962. This engine was the former Chicago Burlington & Quincy 277. It would later be sold to the Great Western Railway of Colorado as their... (more)
Fresh from repainting this geep is believed to be the first G&W scheme locomotive to be assigned to OTVR, a former Rail America property in western Minnesota.
While it still retains the white diagonal stripes from its days on the Burlington Northern and Great Western Railway, this 1950 built SW7 now finds itself working for Liberty Railway Services as i... (more)