Katy was desperate for motive power when they got some KCC high cab units. When chopping the cab and hood they got it almost right but somewhat lower than normal. Other units were repainted but ... (more)

Former C&O unit in the Evans-era color scheme has a nice rhinoplasty and has been set out for some reason.

Leasers sitting in the engine facility. Not listed in the on-line "all-time" roster and I'm too lazy to look in back issues of Extra 2200 South to see where they came from but I'd guess... (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.

New York & Atlantic RS 40 is dropping off eight stone hoppers for Astro Masonry Supply at Hicksville Team Yard.

While one crew scoots their EMD road slug and mother unit out of the way, the crew of Q464 gets their big GE and HLCX SD40-2 ready to go to work. CSXT 2286 was built in 1964 by EMD for the Baltimo... (more)

Former Mid-Atlantic Railroad 958 is on one end of a Carolina Southern passenger excursion back in 2004. Waccamaw Coast Line 943 is on the far end. Both locomotives were former Norfolk & Western EM... (more)

BN 1882 and 1874 sit side by side between assignments at the engine tracks at Tacoma, WA. Both are of NP heritage and feature steam bells on the short hoods, an NP signature.

On some Sunday's FEC runs a 900 down to New Smyrna Beach and back, seen departing Bunnell.

“Scare Stripes”
A week after the resumption of passenger service to/from Jim Thorpe, freshly repainted RBMN 2013 leads a Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway “bike train” (Jim Thorpe to W... (more)

Built in January 1971 (53 years ago!) as Baltimore & Ohio GP40 #3755, KCS 2853 was recently converted by KCS from a GP40-3 into a GP32ECO. It sits with two other KCS geeps in the small CPKC yard i... (more)

Short train through Plant City.

I'm not a fan of leased power on shortlines, but if I'm going to get it I'll take an ex-SP GP40-2 with a free flow blower, large plow and horizontal headlight, in IC&E paint... one of the later GP... (more)

Running light after making a delivery at Speed LIRC's 2301 races back to its Jeffersonville yard passing the Clark County airport.

BN 1726 has arrived in Butte with its freight after crossing Homestake Pass and Bozeman Hill having originated in Livingston. A UP A-B-B-A set consisting of an SD40, two GP30Bs and a GP30 sit near... (more)