Look ma, no wheels! 602 is in for some work and placed on stands with trucks removed.

On August 26, 2013, Union Pacific was testing Electro-Motive Diesel’s SD70ACes on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision west of Denver, Colorado. UP’s mobile laboratory car No. UPP 210 is bracketed by... (more)

Union Pacific was testing Electro-Motive Diesel’s SD70ACes on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision west of Denver, Colorado, on August 26, 2013. UP’s mobile laboratory car No. UPP 210 is bracketed by... (more)

Not me! The one Amtrak AEM-7 that has been preserved in full (at least so far) is prepped for departure to The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.

The SOO chose MN&S caboose #100 to wear a short lived white paint scheme as a display car to celebrate the newly created SOO/Milwaukee system. It is shown here resting in shops yard in North Fond ... (more)

The sun sets at Norfolk Southern's Coal Pier 6 at Lambert's Point in Norfolk, Virginia. Coal Pier 6 is one of the largest, fastest, and most technologically advanced transloading facilities for co... (more)

A special move handling the first EMD F-125 for Metrolink came off the NS at Streator, IL and is running west on the BNSF to Los Angeles. The two GP60's brought the SCAX 905 and buffer cars from ... (more)

Bankrupt Milwaukee Road could not find funds to keep the Pacific extension alive, but still managed to put fresh paint and wash jobs on power in the core system as shown here at St. Paul. GP40 loo... (more)

The Cummins QSK95 demonstrator, CECX 1919, is seen leading Indiana Rail Road train SAHW-01, Indianapolis Senate Avenue Yard to Hiawatha Yard, southbound through Bargersville, Indiana with INRD SD9... (more)

The Cummins PR photo shoot using the Indiana Rail Road train SAHW (Senate Avenue - Indianapolis to Hiawatha Yard) with the QSK95 demonstrator, CECX 1919, leading INRD SD90MAC43 9013 has pulled dow... (more)

First shift paint shop supervisor David Smith inspects a Scotchlite Union Pacific shield and wings at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 18, 2015. These smaller “baby wings” are used on older... (more)

Somehow my wife was invited aboard an eastbound coal train just east of North Platte which got me invited as well. I was able to shoot a westbound before they departed.

Painter (carman by trade) Gary Dunlap carefully applies the Scotchlite flag decal to the side of Union Pacific ES44AC No. 5401 inside the paint shop at the Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Ro... (more)

A replica of President Lincoln's funeral car is unloaded at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. The museum will display the car, with related artifacts, from June through September. Built by Dave K... (more)

Not The Same As The Others

As the Twentieth Century was winding down, the Union Pacific announced in 1999 the first major changes to their staid Armour Yellow and Harbor Mist Gray pa... (more)