On the afternoon of June 16, 2017, a long train of military equipment from Fort Carson, near Colorado Springs, Colorado, heading to Yermo, California, is westbound on Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunn... (more)

The Denver Rock Island Railroad's 1083 (SW1500) operates under the vigilant sentry of the Colorado National Guard's M4 Sherman tank.

A heavy train of military equipment from Fort Carson, near Colorado Springs, Colorado, heading to Yermo, California, is westbound on Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision on June 16, 2017. I... (more)

Over 8,000 tones of worn Abrams tanks are seen being slugged upgrade into Woodford on a warm afternoon on Tehachapi. Making a somewhat rare appearance on a DODX train, two mid-train DPU's can be s... (more)

Las Vegas local LUM42 shoves a military load north to Valley Yard. Shoving from mid train is a trio of SD40N's.

Tanks a lot! 6 axle flatcars are rare, even more so when there are tanks aboard. DODX 40284 is part of a westbound CNW freight as is rumbles thru Blairstown, IA in May of 1991.

During June 2000 the United Railroad Historical Society hosted two pair of fantrips over the U.S. Navy Railroad, from Earle, N.J. to the mile long pier at Leonardo, N.J. The train is shown during ... (more)

Westbound on a BNSF freight in the Columbia River Gorge is a pair of Department of Defense flatcars loaded with six new Stryker armored combat vehicles on September 24, 2016. This overhead view is... (more)

This Whitcomb switcher has been a long time resident of Dobbins Air Force Base (Lockheed Martin) in Marietta, GA. On this day it rests among other diesel giants awaiting transit to Kirby Family Fa... (more)

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)

Mid-Continent's Baldwin RS4TCA1 1256 is decorated, along with the museum train, for the 4th of July weekend celebrations.

Slowly grinding up the grade out of Kingman, Ariz. is an eastbound military train carrying transport vehicles. As it rounds the large, swooping curve of Antares, all of the vehicle align together ... (more)

Pure luck. The UP Desert Storm unit passed us westbound at O'Fallon's, but we were on the south side of the tracks and an eastbound was in our way. I was willing to risk a ticket trying to catch u... (more)

The New Haven borrowed 38 U.S.Army locomotives to assist in the recovery from the floods of August 1955. Some were not returned until June 1956. I shot B-2044 in Providence, RI.

United States Navy VO-1000 65-00531, which has been rebuilt with EMD components, was found on December 21st, 1980, at Anaheim Junction (Anaheim, California) on the Southern Pacific. This engine, ... (more)