Taken with permission on a tour with the Florida East Coast Railway Society. Very rare look inside NASA Railroad operations.

Taken with permission on a tour with the Florida East Coast Railway Society. Very rare look inside NASA Railroad operations.

This is NASA #3 after repainting a few years ago. An extremely rare look inside the NASA facility taken on a FECRS tour. Taken with permission. The NASA railroad has stopped ops.

Well ... That's a bit obvious ...

Motor train #26 has just arrived from Carlsbad, New Mexico, and is rounding the east leg of the Clovis wye. Baldwin switcher 2253 is waiting to couple to the rear of chair-observation 3197 and wil... (more)

Photographed on Kodachrome more than two years after America's Bicentennial celebration, WP 1776 awaits servicing at D&RGW's Roper Diesel Shop in South Salt Lake. GP40 1776 was built the WP 3540 b... (more)

Add this to your "must-see" list of Heritage units. Fresh from the Progress Rail paint shop and just in time for Tacoma Rail's annual Open house.

A not so common sighting by the Great Lakes Central shops is the railroad's 25-tonner switching cars around the shop. The little critter is quite powerful and can move a decent string of cars.

The 590 was one of Amtrak's last active CF7s, living out its last days in the sunshine state shifting Auto Carriers around. Date is approximate.

Renewable
Couplers from scrapped railcars head into the BNSF yard where they’ll most likely be sent to a foundry that manufactures this railway component so their metal compositions ... (more)

This is rare to say the least. A Brandt Hi-Rail truck brings three IC ballast hoppers eastbound into the USRC.

While it is much smaller than its counterpart in Owosso, the shop areas in Cadillac for Great Lakes Central hold some very cool artifacts that are waiting to rust away. A former Ann Arbor box car... (more)

Zacky Farms CF7 No. 2631 sits at the elevators at Traver, California, on March 10, 1995. In the 1970’s, the Cleburne Shops of the Santa Fe converted old F3’s and F7s to this unique (ugly?) roa... (more)

An AEM-7AC sits with a bunch of ballast hoppers in Penn Coach Yard.

This I would say has got to be the oldest piece of equipment BNSF owned and used. An old ATSF ice hatch reefer built in 1923 which was last used as a buffer car on a welded rail train. All of the ... (more)