Looking more like a modeler's workbench than a railroad, CNW chop-nose fabricated windshield/head light panels are stored outside their Oelwein diesel shop awaiting installation on one of their GP... (more)

Distributed power units on the rear of a coal empty are framed by a repurposed elevated hopper at Attebury Grain.

CNW 4480 is in the process of being kitbashed from CNW 1659, a May 1953 GP7 into a chopped nose GP7R, at Oelwein, IA. Oelwein was the Chicago Great Western's main locomotive shop, acquired by CNW ... (more)

The re-erection of Conrail's LEMO Tower at Strasburg. LEMO (or J-Tower) is one of only two surviving Victorian Era two-story wooden PRR signal towers; the other being SHORE Tower in North Philly.... (more)

The 937 is in for some TLC.

High and Wide

The Air Products heat exchanger creates quite a scene passing through Manville on a stormy afternoon.

Norfolk Southern's pair of DC to AC upgraded units - NS 4001 and 4000 - lead a southbound Belews Creek, NC coal train -symbol 756V806 - past the Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virginia.

On my way to work on November 18, 2009, the dispatcher calls to inform me I72 left a track indication between Attica and Marshfield. After obtaining Track Authority, I put my hyrail truck on the ... (more)

A 60-car Norfolk Southern unit coal train of higher sulphur coal destined for the Eastman Chemical in Kingsport, Tennessee, loads at Red River Coal Company’s prep plant and loadout at Steer Bran... (more)

A 60-car unit coal train of higher sulphur coal destined for the Eastman Chemical in Kingsport, Tennessee, loads at Red River Coal Company’s prep plant and loadout at Steer Branch/Dixiana, Virgi... (more)

Red River Coal Company loadout operator Dwayne Carroll carefully monitors the loading process as a 60-car unit coal train of higher sulphur coal destined for the Eastman Chemical in Kingsport, Ten... (more)

REFER MADNESS! A string of brand new refrigerated cars make their maiden voyage to Albina Yard on the daily Lake Yard transfer. These Gunderson made cars were built right across the street from La... (more)

Announced today, a new 501c(3) not-for-profit, the Nashville Steam Preservation Society, is seeking a lease with Metro Nashville Parks ... (more)

An intricate and carefully choreographed procedure setting the locomotives down during their ship to shore transfer. With rain about, Class 20E, 20 001 the class leader, is in the slings and abou... (more)

"Waste Management Shuttlewagon on the Lower Montauk" Waste Management of Long Island City's Shuttlewagon hauls a cut of empty trash container flats from Bliss Yard to the new WM load transf... (more)