When key components on freight cars fail and the subsequent repairs can’t be made at the location said car is set out, then you got to improvise a temporary solution to get the car running again... (more)

The front tender truck is removed from C&O 2716's tender by Kentucky Railway Museum and Kentucky Steam Heritage volunteers. A roller bearing truck will be installed in its place as required for t... (more)

Paducah & Louisville's GP38-2 3810 and 3800 wait for a signal to proceed south to Osborn yard with the CSX transfer. In the foreground are party caboose used by patrons during the University of Lo... (more)

Because the guest engines at Beamish museum's Festival of Steam ran on 15 inch gauge track it meant that for the first time locomotives with three different guages could be seen in one palce. Here... (more)

The Columbia River Belt Line Railway #7, aka The Skookum, is gently being pushed up a ramp an on to a trailer for its road trip to The Niles Canyon Railway in Sunol California.

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Dateline Tillamook Oregon…. The Columbia River Belt Line Railway #7, aka The Skookum, is all packed up and ready for its road trip to The Niles Canyon Railway in Sunol California.

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Parade of Power: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Steam at Clark's. Kicking off the 2-day celebration of the 60th anniversary of the White Mountain Central Railroad, all 5 of the line's ... (more)

Chattanooga knows what's up and they're not afraid to show it.

Built in 1913 by SWS Schlieren, this third-class C # 6138 two-axle passenger coach of the SBB Historic left the building in the background (the former locomotive shed) the day before unintentional... (more)

Apparently the Ex-Conrail GP8 at the grain elevator in Tamora, Nebraska needed a little help building air. The folks at the Co-Op strapped an air compressor up on the front pilot.

A former BN unit leads a lite engine set out of the Springfield Underground. This facility was opened as a quarry, for mining limestone, in 1946 on Route 66 and was served originally by Frisco. To... (more)

Land shark! A former C&NW (UP) C40-8 has cut off its train and is about to head for the diesel facility at Proctor with some additional artwork on its pilot plow.

Penn Central E44s and a train stuck in the Assunpink Creek flooding of 1975. The USGS investigation of the flooding can be found here... (more)

A Paul Hunnel original Kodachrome slide form my collection.

BCOL C44-9WL 4644 sits eerily quiet on its side after a derailment on train M310 on January 26th.