What you're looking at here is the cab of former New Haven FA1 #0402, known today as the "World's Fair Cab". The locomotive was built by ALCO in 1947, and served on the New Haven until the early ... (more)

An ex-Norfolk Southern B36-7, now converted to metric gauge, with original NS numbers, heading a northbound empty train departing Pantojo loop. We also have an ex-CSX B36-7, still in original colo... (more)

After setting off one car on the elevator lead the A&M Monett turn with new SD70ACe's 70 & 71 is continuing their trek south. Note the new bell applied to 70's nose between the number boards. Th... (more)

A truly unique machine, the Haysi 1. A former Clinchfield B-unit that was modified for radio control and was fitted with a control stand inside the unit, and taking it a step further on the unique... (more)

On the Romanian forestry railways it was very common to convert road vehicle into rail vehicles. This one seen in the Viseu de Sus yard is based on a Bucegi type truck built in Romania by Roman in... (more)

Former Southern Railway class Q1 0-6-0 No 33020 has just passed Clapham Junction on the south western main line with an engineers (mow) train coming off duty. This unusual locomotive was designed ... (more)

A former Missouri Pacific caboose find itself in work train service along UP's Evanston Subdivision at Echo, Utah. I like the red painted details along the grab irons, steps, and the trucks.

A standard design scale test car owned by the State of Minnesota makes even a short 24' ore car look huge. The Missabe converted this car to scale monitoring duty.

Tug Cornell was built in 1949 at the Jakobson Shipyard in Oyster Bay, NY for the Lehigh Valley Railroad in New York City and was one of the Lehigh Valley Railroad's "Four Aces". It was built with ... (more)

This unusual crossing signal still works correctly at an apparently unused private crossing. The lights did go out when a westbound freight approached.

This is unusual low four-wheel saddle tank railway steam locomotive. built by W.G. Bagnall for use at Par harbour in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The unusual design was required to cope with some ext... (more)

Low clouds hang over the valley at Red Pass, British Columbia, on July 14, 2013. A red 40-foot Canadian National boxcar that once carried goods across a vast country now sits in the grass used as ... (more)

Metro Port train from Tauranga passes through the south Auckland suburbs and soon arrive at Southdown terminal. The DL class is the first new motive power for KiwiRail and the first Chinese built ... (more)