A Critter Keeps Earning

Union Tank Car's Altoona facility keeps an anachronistic piece of power around. While most repair facilities opt solely for a trackmobile these days, UTLX kee... (more)

Norfolk Southern's "safety train" passes a small pond near Calcis, Alabama, during a run from Tuscaloosa, AL, to Macon, GA. Photo by Casey Thomason. For more information about Norfolk... (more)

The tail end of all freight trains back in the 1960s had one of these.

Thomas the Insomniac

A GP7, some cabooses and a solarium car. GP7 CN 4803, cabooses THB 70 & CN 79144 and solarium car Cape Race are seen among the many skyscrapers and condos of downtown Toronto. In bet... (more)

Deseret Power’s morning, loaded, train ran around 4 hours early this morning so as to open a window for the maintenance crew to replace a rail at around MP 1.5. The now empty morning train rolle... (more)

Small power for a big road. Santa Fe GE 44-ton switcher 467 didn’t have drawbars but rather steel plates for shoving 2-axle buggies of green cross ties into pressurized creosote cylinders at t... (more)

The winter sun is low in the sky as a Rohr Turboliner glides north through Cruegers, NY, on its way from New York to Albany.

Looking like a Star Wars scene In February of 2006 the weather was no different from a typical Sierra Nevada Winter. In this scene the UP 604 pauses in Truckee, CA while the storm continu... (more)

The Orange Juice Train has been a staple of east coast railroading since 1971, when Tropicana instituted a once-a-week unit train between its processing facility in Bradenton, Florida, and its nor... (more)

Rebuilt at Burnham in 1969 as a Tool Car, this old 40 foot DRGW Boxcar began life in the 1940's.... This car still has a place on the Union Pacific in 2017, complete with roofwalk and high brake.... (more)

The Coastal Transportation Company Frozen Fish Handling Terminal in Seattle uses a Plymouth ML-8 switcher to move refrigerated rail cars. The company use a fleet of ships to move frozen fish and o... (more)

Long before the Guilford organization used its corporate identity for system-wide operations under management-friendly work rules, the Springfield Terminal Railway was a 5.5-mile long ex-interurba... (more)

East Jordan and Southern #6 rests at her new display location about 1/4 mile away from her previous home of 57 years. The locomotive was recently moved across town to a more prominent display loca... (more)