This is a classic, beautifully painted and unfortunately doomed as the crankshaft is broken and she'll never run again.

Two RS-11's coupled together was uncommon for Penn Central. New haven, Penn central and even Conrail loved to mix up their power.

A southbound UP - manifest with two DD35A - Engines heads toward Las vegas

Sitting near the roundhouse at N.Green Bay is C&NW 1493. It was a former MKT unit that was re-engined by EMD in 1958. C&NW picked it up in 1973 after MKT retired it and sold it to PNC. It was reti... (more)

We were different railfans in the 50's and 60’s.. We had different expectations and poorer film and cameras. Every train we saw we deemed to be the last we would ever see. The PA's were running ... (more)

Hostlers hustle to get the power back on the road on a chilly November day at the Dover Street Engine Terminal. The RDC will soon be headed to Needham. The Geeps will go to local freight and pas... (more)

Imagine my expletive as a accident spotted this which cruising down the freeway on day. It had been set out as a bad order. Good luck for me, bad luck for SP.

Now we have new information about this crash, the steam locomotive with the number 3311 is an ex Florida East Coast 4-8-2 part of a group of FEC locomotives sold to the NdeM in 1946-1952 it is lis... (more)

Rare bird. PRR transfer engine #8730 center-cab Baldwin RT-624 at Frankford Jct., North Phila. 35 mm slide photo dates from 1965 or '66. Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton delivered 23 of these beasts to the... (more)

With GE power closing in on the major overhaul date and annual inspection mileage, a rescue engine gets the highball to head to Stateline tunnel and push a stalled freight train to Selkirk. Good l... (more)

This experimental lightweight articulated trainset was built by Baldwin and Pullman in the 1950s for the New York Central for operation between Cleveland and Cincinnati, OH. The train was not a su... (more)

The Ugliest Diesel Ever? Some might consider the CF7 to be the ugliest diesel locomotive ever built, others the BQ23-7, but for my money this contraption based on an E8(B) when seen from t... (more)

Alco PA-1 units 5753 and 5752 are waiting for a train from New York where two Baldwin units had been sitting about an hour before. There was a large variety of diesel power in South Amboy that day... (more)