It seems to be only a matter of time before the former Chessie System B&O 6525 will be completely enveloped in weeds and brush as it rusts away in Athens, Georgia.
An eastbound autorack train, led by CSX 983, rolls through a tapestry of Fall colors as it crests the Sand Patch summit in Meyersdale, Pennsylvania.
Sometimes even a member of the Union Pacific 4014 crew has to stop for a moment and admire the Big Boy. It is a cold 20 degrees as the crew prepares the 4014 for the trip north to Little Rock, Ar... (more)
It is a brisk 25 degrees as Union Pacific 4014 races north from Texarkana towards Hope, Arkansas. The cold weather sure made the steam in the exhaust turn a bright white, which looked great again... (more)
A crew member working on the cab window of Union Pacific 4014 gives the viewer a scale of just how massive the Big Boy is. It was a very cold 20 degrees as the Big Boy is prepared for the run from... (more)
4-8-4 Grand Trunk Western 6325 and 2-8-4 Nickel Plate Road 763 on display at the Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum in Sugarcreek, Ohio. There is quite a impressive number of steam locomotives located... (more)
Santa Fe 5155 leads a westbound intermodal train through Cajon Pass.
My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)
SP 7874, sporting the SP- Santa Fe "kodachrome" merger paint scheme, sits at the spur track near the east switch at Bena.
The yard in Augusta, GA has a couple trains waiting to go as NS 4208 waits for a crew to take it east towards Columbia, SC, and BNSF 6213 is a lone DPU waiting to head south.
CSX 3238 hustles a southbound doublestack at track speed through the Folkston funnel.
Here is a new railroad for Railpictures, this little 4-4-0 number 11 was built for the Truxillo Railroad in Honduras by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., wa... (more)
CSX 5555, the "Spirit of Cartersville", idles in the Taft yard in Orlando.
Former Conrail and Penn Central SD-45s are now part of the Chicago & Northwestern, as CNW 6557 idles in the yard in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
The fall tree colors are coming into peak season as CSX 3028 leads a westbound doublestack over the summit at Sand Patch.