Renfe's Series 443 was a high-speed train prototype that in 1977 reached 200 km/h. In 1987 it made its last trips as a high-speed test train on the line from Madrid to Alicante. Since then it has ... (more)

I seem to remember a country music song with the lyric “some days are diamonds, some days are stones” Well, September 16, 2013 was a diamond for me at Helper Yard, Utah. I had driven from my r... (more)

CN 8223 is one of two surviving MLW S7 locomotives and believed to be the last operable example to exist serving the Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad. Bruce Hodges, president of the Leather... (more)

The Museum of the American Railroad is working hard at restoring this PA-1 heavily damaged in a derailment in Mexico. It is a sister to the unit restored as Nickel Plate 190. This shot shows hea... (more)

The Museum of the American Railroad is working hard at restoring this PA-1 heavily damaged in a derailment in Mexico. It is a sister to the unit restored as Nickel Plate 190.

Illinois Central returns home to Homewood. Retired IC 8408 and a caboose sit on display at the Homewood Metra station, while CN L536 passes by on the former Illinois Central ‘Mainline of Mid-Ame... (more)

Western Pennsylvania coal train bound for Edison's River Rouge power plant near Detroit, Michigan, led by PRR GP9 7253, PRR GP9B 3818 and Detroit, Toledo & Ironton GP9 990 rolling through Orovill... (more)

A forner Minnesota Commercial C424 sits at the Wisconsin Great Northern in Trego.

UMBARGER TX Oct 8 1988 — Santa Fe SD45-2u 5824, SD45-2B 5514 and C30-7 8112 lead a TOFC train on the journey west to Clovis NM for refueling and a new crew. EMD built the unit in May 1972 and de... (more)

Early to Rise. While In Charleston for work, I woke up early each morning to see if I could catch PR working around the Charleston Navy Base. The first morning I had no luck but on this se... (more)

A cold December evening finds a pair of Mohawk, Adirondack & Northern Alco's working the railroad's yard in Utica, New York as they pull a cut of empty LSRC pole cars towards the west yard lead. A... (more)

A pair of GE Super 7's lead the Ohio Central's Cambridge Turn as it heads back towards Zanesville, passing by a rock cut as it rounds the bend along Frog Creek at 10 MPH. The horn echoes through t... (more)

Originally TC, this unit was switching. At times it was a slug mom but on this date the unit was teamed with a C420. I wish now we had shot some of those US Steel hoppers.

"Hammerhead" might be a fitting nickname. Unfortunately this is not as ugly as they got when they were turned into B-units. I wonder if one may be mouldering away somewhere but suspect... (more)

A former SP FM H12-44 rests at a locomotive dealer near El Paso in the spring of 1979 Note the old as delivered Barrel Headlights