AC 1753 is parked at the Shops Yard engine facilities at Wisconsin Central's North Fond Du Lac yards. The unit began life in January 1957 as CN 6514, a GMD built FP9A. It came back under CN owners... (more)

Picasso railcar in Dijon before Tour du Morvan departure

All was quite this afternoon as a GP7 sits near the turntable with a tower and oddly impressive station in the background.

CNW Also C-425 no. 4258 shares space in North Green Bay's roundhouse with CNW Geep no. 4140. By 1986 Green Bay had replaced the "Alco Line" as the center of Alco locomotives on the railr... (more)

Handle with care: A "high profile" load on the WW&F - Part 2. WW&F Locomotive #9, a fully-restored, 1891 Portland Company Product, and a locomotive which ran on the original railr... (more)

As part of Steamtown's Railfest weekend, visiting equipment from a few railroads came to Steamtown. Here, a recently rebuilt Canadian Pacific 2279 soaks in the morning sun.

The last Santa Fe F7 left resides in the California State Railroad Museum. This is the only F7 originally built for Santa Fe that is still an F7. In the 1970s, Santa Fe turned over 200 F7s into C... (more)

4-6-0 steamlocomotive 38 # 1182 of the DB Museum, not operational based in the Bahnbetriebswerk Arnstadt (hist), on the turntable. The locomotive of type "Preuss. P 8" was built in 1910 ... (more)

0-10-0 steamlocomotive 94 # 1292 of the Lokschuppen Arnstadt on the turntable of the Arnstadt roundhouse. The locomotive was built in 1922 by Henschel/Kassel for the Deutsche Reichsbahn. Based as ... (more)

Coming East Again. Famously acquired by Doyle McCormack after a lengthy career where it saw service for the ATS&F, Delaware and Hudson, and in Mexico, Santa Fe Alco PA-1 #18 is one of four ... (more)

Looking back, it's hard to fully understand things I didn't photograph in my teens. Like why is this the only thing even approaching a 50% clean shot of the transfer table at Elizabethport, NJ? I ... (more)

In late Spring 2005, a volunteer at the North Carolina Transportation Museum works on Graham County Shay 1925. The locomotve was obviously still running at this tim, but by 2008 was taken out of s... (more)

A hostler moves a leased Bangor and Aroostook GP7 and a CPR FP7A into the roundhouse at CPR's St. Luc Yard. The turntable still is used and eight of the thirty-seven stalls are intact. A number ... (more)

In May 2014, the North Carolina Transportation Museum hosted a Streamliners Festival where E units and F units (and streamliners from other builders) all congreated at the museum in Spencer.
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More than 170 years after construction began on this facility the original purpose of repairing and maintaining the railroad's massive fleet of locomotives continues. Strategically nestled at the ... (more)