In the latter half of 2013 General Electric built a group of EF44AC 4500hp Tier 4 emissions test locomotives, painted blue and sent out to test on several railroads, including (as seen here) Union... (more)

Santa came early this year...CSXT GP40-2 #6394 leads Cartersville based L810 through Taylorsville with a healthy train for the Cagle Feed Mill and CW Matthews at Rockmart.

The mechanical overhaul of Nickel Plate Road diesel locomotive no. 358 has entered a dramatic new phase as Progress Rail has transformed it to its as-built 1957 appearance. After six years of work... (more)

The Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board is the governing body for the Caltrain Peninsula commuter rail transit service between San Francisco, San Jose and Gilroy. Among the railroad equipment t... (more)

On February 9th at 4:45 am, one of BNSFs monster coal trains derailed east of Cairo Nebraska. The three SD70ACes were the mid-train DPUs.

A pair of SD40-2s in two paint schemes (CP 5871 & CP 6012) switch Lachine IMS Yard. It had been many years since I last shot a pair of SD40-2's on CP, something that was common enough 10-15 years ... (more)

BN 9790 pokes its nose out of the diesel shop at Auburn, WA, a former Northern Pacific facility located between Seattle and Tacoma. A close look shows that this former BN passenger F7 still wears ... (more)

Something don't look right.

Experiment at Moffat Tunnel by Anna Huezo I found this charming scene on the "Moffat Road" group on Facebook taken by a local photographer by the name of Ana Huezo. She wowed me on thi... (more)

AT&SF 2-8-8-2 1797 awaits its next helper assignment on Raton Pass near Morley Colorado in 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

El Capitan, AT&SF train 21, is seen descending on the west side of Raton Pass near Lynn New Mexico, on January 16th 1944. Note the wartime headlight visor on E6 13. Otto Perry photo, from my colle... (more)

Not many EMC/EMD FT diesels, which pretty much were the locomotive that killed steam, were preserved – just two FTA units and three FTBs, although these Bs had been converted to Steam Heater Car... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

On January 6th, 2024 an MBTA/Keolis work extra moved B&M RDC-2 #6213 and B&M milk car 1930 from Boston Engine terminal to the former shop complex at Iron Horse Park in North Billerica. The Budd RD... (more)