As the rear of NS 148 (Chattanooga,TN-Cincinnati,OH) passes, over Tenbridge on the NS CNO&TP 2nd District, we get a rear glimpse of a very unique locomotive. Herzog 202 is a unique designed GP40M-... (more)

"Last Switch of the Day" The engineer of NYAR's Plow Extra looks on as the Track Department heats up the last switch of the night. Once cleaned out the plow job will shuttle the ... (more)

"Torching Switches" New York & Atlantic Railway's MoW crew torches some frozen switches in Fresh Pond Yard after the January 5th "bomb cyclone" storm covered several switches in huge snow ... (more)

CNW 6820 passes a MOW front end loader as it heads on to the BN at Saunders, WI in May of 1986. The train will use trackage rights to the Twin Cities. Note the train orders on a pole attached to a... (more)

910 runs light past MOW returning south. It's rare to see 910 this far north these days. FEC MOW forces have been hard at work keeping things in top shape as they always do.

Workin' On The Railroad Creeping crossing over the NS controlled NS/CSX Diamond at 23rd Street (MP WA-137.3/J-149.9 23rd St.) is the loaded ballast train CSX C025-13 making it's ... (more)

NS 6912 leads a MOW train west of Conway, PA

Every once in a while they bring out a ballast regulator to do some light cleaning. Most of the time the regulator helps clean up Truckee MOW Yard as the snow gets too heavy up on top. On this d... (more)

The classic outside frame 2-8-2s charging up the 4% grade may be more glamorous, but there is a lot of behind the scenes work to make that happen. A speeder crew follows each steam train with the ... (more)

A Plasser & Theurer tamper leads a parade of MOW equipment eastbound on the Kearney sub.

As two members of a BNSF MOW crew tend to a broken rail on their north-south main at Tower 55, the other two--including the welder--keep a wary eye on UP 5914 South, a coal load that will pass the... (more)

On March 15th Union Pacific brought out the refurbished/upgraded rotary for some testing. The Truckee MoW employees loaded up the #1 track with snow from East Norden up to the 'Big Hole'. The weat... (more)

This 76 year-old survivor was spotted moving through the UP's North Yard on the back of a grain train. Built in April of 1941, DRGW 69035 was last serviced in 1969 and was utilized as a tool car ... (more)

The sun is coming up over Columbia as the daily autorack train is waiting for a signal at Elmwood Junction. It is sitting just before a MOW crane that has been working various parts of the Columb... (more)

There are all sorts of interesting things to be found in the Silverton yard. While all the attention is on the ex-D&RGW steam fleet, a cohort of GE switchers helps behind the scenes with switching... (more)