There’s no doubt that the highlight of the 1983 NRHS convention was the night photo session at Richmond’s famed triple crossing. Conducted by the late Jim Boyd, the scene featured a Chesapeake... (more)

Built as U23B, remanufactured as 3000-hp SF30B by Santa Fe, Cleburne, later derated to 2,300 hp.

RailPower Gensets are now a common sight on UP's Proviso hump jobs, as are the SD40's these units were rebuilt from. UPY 889 (ex-UP SD40-2 3359) and UPY 888 (ex-UP SD40-2 3331) work the hump on a ... (more)

What may be the end of an era. The Alco that served the Litwar "Red Ash" Tipple for many years looks to be parked for good.

Built by the Marion Steam Shovel Company of Marion, Ohio in 1920 this unique item is possibly the oldest remaining 12" gun mount on a rail car. Once used as coastal defenses through the 1920... (more)

With an approach-medium on the cab signal above his right elbow, the Broadway Limited's engineer starts his train west for the next stop in Harrisburg. PRR cab signals could only display four asp... (more)

The time on the world's largest (at the time) 4 sided clock says it is 8:15 in the morning as Relco S2 1063 switches the Continental Grain elevator in Milwaukee in December of 1993.

A rare sight, of two nose to nose CN Snowplows No.55421R and No.55265R parked in Bathurst, CN Yard April 06, 1986, and the good looking girl in the picture is my wife Amy.

Thirty-three Renaissance (Nightstar) carbodies sit in a grassy field on Thunder Bay Port Authority property on June 12, 2016. These are the remainder of the 139 cars imported from Britain in 2001,... (more)

Rebuilt traction motors sit outside the main shop building at Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 18, 2015. EMD SD70M No. 5146 waits for additional work ... (more)

Union Pacific GE ES44AC No. 5430 has just emerged from the paint shop at UP’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 18, 2015. Sister ES44AC No. 5425 still is in the middle... (more)

NUMBERBOARD ANATOMY The interior look from inside the cab of the numberboard and headlight fixtures.

On a beautiful fall day, the afternoon Hometown Highbridge train out of Jim Thorpe approaches its namesake landmark on the Reading & Northern Main Line. The train is running push-pull with an imma... (more)

Interior view of Norfolk & Western postal car #93 at the Virginia Transportation Museum in Roanoke, Virginia. This car was built in 1937 by the Bethlehem Steel Car Company.

West Green River Dispatcher Dick Christensen is updating the train graph at the 4th Subdivision desk in Cheyenne. Christensen was the long time second trick (3-11pm) dispatcher for the railroad be... (more)