While on vacation, driving toward the narrow gauge Mecca of Colorado, we stumbled across this oddball Rio Grande local departing Soldier Summit, bound for Helper. Go Rock Island!

The only reason I fished this one out is how many viewers have ever seen the top of a UP "Big Blow" Turbine where all that noise came from. (They were eventually outlawed from running in Sou. Ca... (more)

A Brandt Road-Transferable Locomotive (RTL) in maintenance of way service, takes a break for the weekend in Union Pacific's Echo Yard. Brandt is a Canadian company that converts semi trucks into d... (more)

Hoppers get loaded on a side track in CSX's yard just outside of Prince, West Virginia.

An old Sante Fe hopper seems to have derailed and found a new home at the same time. Note the other hopper that is now part of the facility.

Railroad: Renfe Locomotive: Track car (1940) Location: Vilanova i la Geltru

A set of 1992 Tube Stock departs Theydon Bois station on the outer reaches of London's Central line, one stop before the terminus of Epping. This section of the line was originally a conventional ... (more)

The simple yet striking paint scheme adorning the trio of Savatrans ES44ACs complements a typical Midwestern scene. This coal train had recently finished loading at Sugar Camp Mine and was trundl... (more)

Q34829 sports a brand new GEVO along with a rare Canadian visitor seen passing under an old NYC signal bridge.

Vehicles are carefully loaded aboard the Auto Train Auto Carriers for the day's southbound trip.

Completed in December 2010, this Progress Rail PR43C still has that showroom shine as it sits in a siding in downtown Jesup, just down the road from the Progress Locomotive Shop in Patterson where... (more)

No, this wasn't photoshopped. Apparently a shop laborer had a little time on his hands to modify UP's slogan on the side of Great Western's a-bit-worn GP-9. Note GW's jackrabbit herald in the ea... (more)

A BNSF yard job has just pulled a boxcar of hardboard out of the Georgia Pacific plant along Duluth's waterfront. The prior day GP announced that they would close this plant at the end of the mont... (more)

On it's way to the MINExpo International 2012, the EMDX 1201 sits under wraps in Battle Creek Yard waiting to go out on train 393. The tarp and Police escort protecting the new top secret paint jo... (more)

Progress is our middle name
No need to name this spring frog manufacturer as their name is cast onto the non-run... (more)