The Oldest Active NYC Subway Diesel. Built in 1965, the first new two-truck diesels that were purchased for present day NYC Transit Subway were General Electric R-37s 50-53. The need had gr... (more)

With the morning work complete, TPR 936 sits on the main in front of the engine house as the crew takes lunch. In the foreground an off road dump truck returns to the site of a future warehouse, ... (more)

With assistance from a friend, IHB's hi-rail crane ME-1 has loaded one of 12 derailed coal hoppers onto a flatcar for movement to a railcar repair shop. Tom Golden photo.

As a Southern Pacific West Colton to Taylor "Hauler" (led by SP GP38-2 4800) blocks a Los Angeles County Fire Department engine that is rushing to a call in Code 3 (lights and siren), but all the ... (more)

The first snowflakes of winter are starting to fall as Nevada Northern 93 in her Kennecott Consolidated Copper markings takes coal. Unfortunately, the original coaling tower is out of service awai... (more)

Monroe Street can get quite busy at times. M&E 20 mingles with vehicular traffic, including a red Mack roll-off truck, shortly before heading across the Passaic River to retrieve the last three c... (more)

Ex-Burlington Northern SD70MAC No. 9646 leads the "Longmont Switch" north as it breaks the silence in the small town of Berthoud, Colorado, passing by an old dump truck and a pair of gra... (more)

A string of stored units, mostly SD70Ms, sits in the dust and soot of California wildfires as a fuel truck passes after having just fueled up some active road units (hidden out of view on another ... (more)

Air Condition Your Pup. The EMD SW8 that handles the traffic at Waste Management of Annapolis Junction, MD, USWX 2 (ex-ITI2, exx-CR 8673, neé Lehigh Valley 259, 9/1951) is a veteran of the east c... (more)

Jerry and Kevin grab a cut of loaded scrap gons from Progress Rails big facility in Albertville,AL utilizing an ex Canadian National GP40-2LW & ex D&RGW SD40T-2 now owned by OmniTrax's Alabama & T... (more)

INRD HWPLT finally heads back to Jasonville as it passes through the town of Sullivan. Sullivan is where the CSX CE&D Sub passes over the INRD's ex Illinois Central line.

In the railroading industry, especially on the short line side, the ability to improvise & adapt to changes in the plan are a necessity. A couple of Pickens employees had arrived at the Vulcan Qua... (more)

I could not find anything about this tiny switcher sitting in a small industry south of Johnstown, Colorado. The locomotive is lettered J&E Railroad #2771. The tiny engine is dwarfed by the ex. B... (more)

The yard locos scramble in the golden morning light. On 8488’s train is a red caboose presumably destined for Schenectady where a high and wide load resides.

FWRY's Extra 3501 with a string of LPG tanks for storage is such an unusual move the man on the tractor had no idea to expect a train. Luckily both train speed and his quick thinking kept there fr... (more)