Located in Albia, Iowa, the Monroe County Historical Society has a small museum that includes a railroad display with an Alco HH660 and a caboose painted for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railr... (more)

The Portland Section of the Empire Builder crosses the causeway at Horsethief Lake.

For many, many years, Montana Rail Link 50-foot boxcar No. 100982, faded but still adorning MRL’s original logos, has sat on a stub spur at Toston, Montana. It’s still there on July 9, 2023!

The "storage" lines at Waycross sit quiet awaiting their fate.

VANCOUVER WA Oct 2 1978 — Retired Burlington Northern RS3 4082 (Northern Pacific paint for lawsuit) sits in the sun at the engine facility. Alco built the unit (b/n 81155) in March 1955 as NP 85... (more)

South Branch Valley RR currently operated by OmniTRAX using Chessie lettered GP 9 ex C&O/B&O 6240 moving freight from Petersburg to Greenspring.

Amtrak domed observation car Silver Horizon brings up the rear of the North Coast Hiawatha at the BN station on Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis on a wintry January morning in 1973. The former Californi... (more)

A three unit FT set leads a 52 car southbound freight near Littleton Colorado in 1951. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

CSX M304 in Richmond

Scrapping 2023. Former CDOT FL-9 2023 (née-New Haven 2057) is the 3rd to last F unit built by EMD. The FL-9 order was a custom design for the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad and... (more)

SOO only owned 10 "Boats" so they were an oddity to find out and about. They looked nice and sounded great but by all accounts there were numerous reasons they had a lifespan of about 1... (more)

Wearing a fresh paint job is Union Pacific SD70ACe 8335, although the UP shield has yet to be applied to the nose. Built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in April 2005, this diesel has r... (more)

Amongst the sea of widecabs ready and waiting in Grafton, the sole C40-8 on the roster (that isn't Pan Am) is front and center. This throwback GE was a very nice sight to see.

Getting Some Air At Delair. Juniata Terminal Railroad's former Pennsylvania Railroad E8 5711 was joined by cars "120" and "Warrior Ridge" (1157) and bookended with JTCX ... (more)

EMDX 7215 at the former EMD plant in La Grange.