An empty well train sits idle on main 2 at the entrance to Russell Yard on a cold January evening. While the well train & it's SD40-2 sit empty and idle, Lexington Branch local Y206-06 pass by on... (more)

The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum hosted Railfest to celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2011, including a night photo session with SOU 2-8-0 #630 and FP7 #6133. The two engines are posed toge... (more)

Downeaster trainset sits idle next to the idle Maine Eastern consist. Sadly, Maine Eastern ended its 10-year lease on the Rockland Branch in 2015.

The sleek looking UP 951 (E9A) and companion B unit stopped in the North Yard for fuel and sand. There were a number of interesting things to see in the North Yard on this day besides 951, includ... (more)

A brand-new Tier 4-compliant GE ET44AH, less than a week old, rests with sister #3371 at the yard in North Bergen, NJ. These two locomotives are the newest engines released from the GE plant in Er... (more)

Strange bedfellows: Motive power of sometime competitors Union Pacific and Chicago Burlington & Quincy occupy adjacent tracks at UP’s Pullman roundhouse in Denver on September 23, 1968. F-unit 5... (more)

At the conclusion of the Fired Up Photo Charter hosted by Jim Wrinn of Trains Magazine, 611 rests after a long day of run-by's next to NCTM staple FP-7 #6133. Thunderheads build in the background ... (more)

611 simmers while being carefully cleaned while Southern FP-7 #6133 acts as yard goat, assembling the train that 611 will pull home to Roanoke the following morning.

SP 6051 leads the California State Railroad Museum's Polar Express train past ATSF 2925 and 5021 at Clunie Siding on the return trip to Old Sacramento

The SP&S 700, built in May 1938 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, stands proudly amoungst Alco-product NKP 324, constructed 17 years later originally for the Utah Railway.

Alexandria Action – A fantrip lead by Southern’s 2-10-4 number 610 has unloaded its passengers after completing an Alexandria – Charlottesville round trip, and is backing away from the stati... (more)

Strasburg Rail Road's ex-Norfolk & Western No. 475 passes a set of Reading FP7s at Groff's Grove. The cab units had led an excursion that provided a one-seat ride from Philadelphia to Strasburg wi... (more)

SP E9A 6051, DRS66-15 5208, and SD45T-2 6819, pose in front of the reconstructed Central Pacific freight shed, for the night photo session at the California State Railroad Museum as part of the 20... (more)

Reading & Northern's seasonal steam powered excursion from Port Clinton to Jim Thorpe has a meet at Nesquehoning Jct with the Hometown High Bridge excursion and freshly painted RN 3050 bringing up... (more)

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