Not long after the Soo bought the MN&S the pair of MN&S SD39's started to roam system wide. Equipped with Hancock air whistles and with an amber flasher above the front walkway the units presented... (more)

Amtrak's Pennsylvanian scoots through Cresson, passing an old PRR flyover bridge which would later be removed to accommodate double stack trains.

One probably wouldn't expect to see a pair of McCloud River Railroad SD38s dragging a long freight train in Utah. The power short Union Pacific leased two of these EMDs from McCloud between 1988 a... (more)

Former VRE GP40-2 V24 built in 1996 is now US Army 4672 and it along with V21 (4670) & V22 (4671) have arrived at Hill AFB, Utah for a complete going over by the Defense Non-Tactical Generator & R... (more)

The Erie passes under the Erie! The Erie painted NS heritage unit passes under the old Erie main at Waverly, NY and is running North on the old Lehigh Valley main. The old Erie main is now the NS ... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe steel coil train grinds up the 2% grade at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon west of Clay, Colorado, on October 17, 2001. On the point of the short-but-heavy ... (more)

What a beautiful landscape! Train from Lauterbrunnen - Wengen to Kleine Scheidegg near Wengernalp (1874 meters over sealevel). Note the small special car for the ski-transport. There is a winter-w... (more)

Santa Fe owned two types of Burro cranes, the type 30 and the type 40. Type 30's had the pulleys for the boom arm located on the roof, while the Type 40's, such as this one had pulleys located in ... (more)

A veteran EMD operated by Three Rivers Marine and Rail Co. pulls a pair of former Norfolk and Western Pullman Standard 4740 cuft covered hoppers up the Monessen Southwestern's former trestle in Be... (more)

Electric double railcar BDhe 4/8 # 133 with articulated lowfloor cab car Bt6 of the Wengernalpbahn (WAB) below Kleine Scheidegg towards Wengernalp and Wengen-Lauterbrunnen.

Just minutes earlier, this back street had been a hive of activity with a wedding in full swing, carpenters using the tracks as their workshop, street hairdressers, shoe stalls, butchers and resid... (more)

One of just three snoot nose SD40-2s on Norfolk Southern rests outside Juniata Shops. The unit was purchased used from CIT Group. The unit was origionally built for Union Pacific before it was sol... (more)

Found this classic crummy in the Baltimore & Ohio yard on an overcast day.

Yard scene on an overcast day.

CNW 889, 873 and the 72 cars of train 415 swing around the busiest of the connections at Wyeville on this Chicago-Twin Cities freight. CNW had a large amount of SD40's and SD45's without dynamic b... (more)