A sb CSX train is approaching the Amtrak (ex-L&N) station as it comes down railroad gulch in downtown Birmingham behind a pair of GEs. The C30-7 in the lead was delivered to SCL (in Family Lines ... (more)

Leaning into the big curve at Notasulga, ten-year-old 7023 is still wearing the GE-applied Family Lines livery it wore when delivered to SCL in March 1979. It is teamed with a couple of SD45-2s, ... (more)

After descending downgrade to river level, the Ohio Central Cambridge Sub follows the banks of the Muskingum River as they head into Zanesville, Ohio. Led by two GE Super 7's, the ZVL makes its re... (more)

One of a kind the only RSD17 ever built Canadian Pacific # 8921 was known as the Empress of Agincourt. It spent much of its life running long transfers from one yard to another in the Toronto. Ph... (more)

Matching The Engine. In April, 2021, FRA DOTX 221 visited the MTA Metro-North Railroad for a week to inspect track on its lines. MNCW 128 (BL20GHM) lead around the curve at Marble Hill in N... (more)

A few minutes after a quick pick-up/set-out at Bennett Yard in North Charleston, train 120 zooms up the slight grade into Hanahan. This 120 has a pair of big ol' six-axle GEs - a welcome relief f... (more)

A pair of old GE 80-Ton locomotives await an uncertain future at the Kentland Elevator & Supply company in Sheldon Illinois.

THE FIRST FM..........

Three thousand and two black horses move west high in the Rocky Mountains. Three thousand of them are in the form of a Rio Grande SD40T-2, leading a 56 car Craig Switcher at Hayden, Colorado.

The Conrail Rome local getting ready to pick up the NYSW 3006 to take it back to Utica. Photo taken from the ( somewhat shaky ) roof of Rome Locomotive Works. The N&W caboose on the right belonged... (more)

The LS&I 7 Tilden shoving some ore cars into eagle mills yard.

Since no locomotives are allowed to run inside the shop, a Rail King RK 320 is used to move them in and out of Union Pacific’s locomotive shop at South Morrill, Nebraska, on September 13, 2017. Tw... (more)