Napa Valley Railroad number 73 basks in the early morning sunlight in their yard in Napa.

Aside from the new units painted in Heritage paint schemes, there were also some actual heritage units in Spencer, North Carolina back in July 2012. All three locomotives were built in the 1950s. ... (more)

Train Rides. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH) RDC-1 no. 32 (Budd, 1953) is seen passing Vintage Locomotive, Inc. (VLIX) RSC-2 (ALCO, 1949), née Seaboard Airline Railroad no... (more)

Slated for shop time?

GUTHRIE OK March 26 1979 — Santa Fe CF7 2455 is assigned to switching duties in this one-time capital of Oklahoma. The unit is tied up just south of the station. EMD built the F unit in May 1951... (more)

Well-Travelled Survivor. Oshawa Railway steeplecab no. 18 (Baldwin-Westinghouse, 1918) is seen resting at the Connecticut Trolley Museum. Originally built for the Auburn & Syracuse Rail... (more)

A rare B32 leads Amtrak's Silver Star out of Cary with a pair of the usual P42s trailing.

That green varied a great deal over the years and on different units. The unit started on NYC, then went to PC, then CR and ended up at the Alco orphanage. Photo by Mike Dolenski, from my collec... (more)

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)