Wearing the scheme for less than a month Santa Fe 146 has just arrived Hobart yard off train QNYLA painted in a special MAERSK scheme for publicitiy work between Los Angeles and Cajon Pass. I beli... (more)

It's a friendlier rivalry than Yankees and Red Sox as New York City R7 car No. 1440 sits next to Boston Elevated's Tower C, both now located at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Maine. Museum assista... (more)

Yes, that is a coal seam in the upper background above my favorite CSX GE.

A Union Pacific GE U30C and two C30-7 units are all clean under a clear blue sky in Cheyenne.

A string of light power sits outside the yard. It gets tempting to do a little Photoshop work here. That CSXT is very light and could just disappear but the evidence of hard use is undeniable. ... (more)

AAR trucks, but no rotating light housing, a dead giveaway for an ex C&O classic.

An A-B-A set of PRR Baldwin sharks at Columbus, Ohio, taking coal from the N&W to port on Lake Erie.

Three Frisco Baldwin switchers, 212, 237 an 211 rumble into the servicing tracks at Kansas City, Mo. on May 29, 1965.

A 26-year-old Baldwin switcher was removing a new caboose from an inbound Frisco train at Kansas City, Mo. on Aug. 4, 1968.

A steam-boiler-equipped Geep for passenger service heads up three other Frisco Geeps at Kansas City, Mo. Note the steam line on front pilot.

A GP-30, two GP-20s and a SD-24 are being hostled at CB&Q’s North Kansas City Yard, Mo.

Five C&S SD-9s of Train 75 pick up reefers of San Luis Valley potatoes from the D&RGW interchange at Walsenburg, Colo. to take them to Texas.

An unexpected quintet of LV SW8s rolls downgrade on the weed-grown LV Mountain Cut Off toward Laurel Run and Coxton. The oversize load visible beyond the SW8s was probably too large for Jersey Cen... (more)

FEC 101 blasts through the rains associated with an ocean storm centered just off the coast. While the north gets legendary snows, we get legendary rains. Dual classics today.

E units, anyone? Former PRR and NYC E units during Penn Central servicing layover at Chicago, Nov. 9, 1968.