In 1976 SP borrowed some BN Locotrol Masters and slave cars in an early effort to institute unmanned helpers. The only testing I saw was on Beaumont Hill. Evidently it didn't work out. No compl... (more)

A visit to New Jersey Transit's Raritan "deadline" reveals a pair of EMD E8A's. The 4267 was built for the Pennsylvania Railroad and 4285 was built for the New York Central. Off to the... (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)

Out in the sunflower vastness of the Nebraska Sandhills, BN 5584 leads a set of DC power on an eastbound coal train through cow country west of Mullen.

Gray Granite Gets A Second Diesel Ready. With the Christmas Season coming, the Gray Granite Railroad has nearly completed work on GE 25T 0825 on Saturday, November 24, 2023. This locomotive... (more)

2816 sweeps through Valley City on the long climb up the grade. In the background, the Hi-Line trestle is visible, taking BNSF trains over the city. The climb up this hill was challenging, for som... (more)

Santa Fe’s QNYLA intermodal train, operating from New York to Los Angeles with Conrail, flies out of Chillicothe, Illinois, at 12:17 p.m. on December 8, 1990. Super Fleet GE B40-8W No. 503 and a... (more)

"Guide Dogs on a Train"

On January 18th, 2024, Two Fidelco Guide Dogs sit comfortably inside of Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) Mafersa cab car 1705 while on a practi... (more)

A pair of Cleveland Works Railroad SW1500's pull a train of loaded slab cars out of the eastern yard at the Cleveland Cliffs Cleveland Works steel mill in Cleveland, Ohio. This intra-plant switchi... (more)

Over under pass at Munger Minnesota - This was close to a three second/3 car difference to perfect. Under was a CN Intermodal and over was CN mixed freight.

High plains drifter. An Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe local rolls across the high plains of eastern Kansas, just east of Abilene, at sunrise.

This image depicts AT&SF 3415, a Class 3400 P... (more)

Heading through the unloader.

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)

BN 1828 and 1762 head up a couple tracks of local and helper service power at Wenatchee in early June 1974. Wenatchee was a hub for locals serving the Wenatchee Valley, the branch to Oroville, the... (more)

The two peeps assigned to the plant are easing around the big curve, bound for Emory Gap to pick up some coal. This was the site of the imfamous fly ash spill in 2008. They still use coal. I wo... (more)