A Rare B&M FM P 12-42 #2 Passenger Lightweight loco sits its last days in a scrap yard in Leeds Maine

An official EMD-GM roster shot of the GM10B during the NMRA open house. An original Kodachrome slide from my collection; the photographer was not specified.

An original Kodachrome slide from my collection; the photographer was not specified.

Based on looking at a CNW diesel roster, this odd ball unit started out as a 6 axle Baldwin road switcher about 1951. It was re-engined be EMD in the late 50s, receiving what appears to be a GP18 ... (more)

Utah Railway locomotives sitting at Martin, Utah.

Norfolk Southern dynamic brake slug RPU6D #890 tags along with SD33ECO #6213 to work a cut of cars at the north end of Brosnan Yard. The RPU6D slug provides additional tractive effort as well as d... (more)

After testing on the Pacific Harbor Line in the port of Los Angeles, RPRX prototype "Green Goat" 2001 was at BNSF's Watson yard waiting to be forwarded east. The unit is battery powered and has a... (more)

LEGO locomotive-special decorations

A pair of sinister looking units on a gloomy day at the Barr Yard engine terminal. A former Seaboard Coast Line Geep is seen next to a BQ23-7 as the units await their next assignment. Tom Golden... (more)

CN 7100-7107 GMD/CN SW1200RM, remanufactured 1985-1987, retired in 2/2000.

CNW's only DL-109, 5007A awaits scrapping in the 40th Street Yard in Chicago, IL in 1954. Russ Porter photo from my collection.

Former loco 114 "La Bête de Calvi" now retired, waiting for an unlikely preservation...

Bug Slug

Countless Alco switchers were rebuilt with Caterpillar or Cummins engines, and sold to small mine operations throughout Appalachia. Most had their cabs removed or sealed s... (more)

I was a California boy, and I had seen stuff like this only in pictures. When Uncle Sam gave me an all expenses paid trip to the East Coast, it was like a whole different world. The GG-1's were ... (more)