CN SD50F 5408 and mate spend a cool snowy night at Chilliwack, BC as blizzard conditions stop traffic of all kinds in the Fraser Valley and Canyon. It will take a few days for things to get back t... (more)

Retired Amtrak conductor Dennis Gleason signs a fresh brown egg after the successful coupling of three Amtrak P42DCs into the west end of the 30-car New River Train. The egg tradition was started ... (more)

For this year's holiday season, GE Transportation painted Dash 9 unit #905 in a red, white, and blue Christmas scheme, as well as restored and repainted a caboose for a lighted display at the Erie... (more)

GECX 809 is a B40-8W sporting one of the early prototypes for the GE widecab. This locomotive is still used at the GE Transportation Plant in Erie to move export locomotives around and you can not... (more)

Bruce Mowbray is hard at work inside the Steamtown roundhouse preparing 0-6-0 No. 26 for the day.

A set of new C30ACi locomotives from GE transportation sit over night on the interchange track awaiting shipment to Angola, South Africa.

Locomotives:
AR 1850 C30ACi
AR 1845 C30ACi

A tiny GE switcher locomotive sits outside the scale house at GE Transportation's Erie Plant.

Locomotives:
GECX 1943 GE 25-Ton

A welding crew takes some time to stand at a safe distance and give a roll-by to CN 2131 that's just received favorable signals to depart the yard and head back to the mine for taconite bearing ro... (more)

In May 1973, Western Pacific's MW37 a big Industrial Brownhoist railroad crane, sits in the yard at Oroville awaiting its next assignment on the railroad. The most likely spot it'll be needed is t... (more)

During the restoration of former Northern Pacific Railway dome #549, the "Gold Creek" name will be removed from the exterior as these cars were not named by the railroad. This car finish... (more)

An interesting prototype for a widecab B40-8 is used at GE to switch around locos that using European couplers.

Locomotives:
GECX 809 B40-8W

What looks like a main generator and traction motors sit in front of the SP SD40T-2 No. 7361 in UP's Burnham Shops. The big electrical gear will be installed in one or several of the many locomoti... (more)

GECX 2035 has had its prime mover removed for work at the GE Erie Plant.

Locomotives:
GECX 2035 ET44AC

Locomotive mechanics Cash and Ross make the final preps on a power assembly before installing it in an SP SD40M-2. The installation will take close teamwork and skill to insert the big assembly in... (more)

Reading & Northern's SD40-2 No 3054 sits in the R&N"s Port Clinton shop having recently received a donor cab from parts engine SD50M No 5029, To the right is SD50 No. 426, painted in a blue Lehig... (more)