Mechanics Cash and Ross prepare to install a new power assembly into the prime mover of an SD40M-2. This particular locomotive was built by M-K using an SD45 shell.

A B40-8W idles under the lights of the Locomotive Maintenance and Inspection Terminal.

SOO 701 gets a little attention at the Shops yard facility in Nort Fond Du Lac. Both the SOO and later, the WC, were very friendly at the time, and it was easy to get permission to photograph loco... (more)

With cold temperatures outside, the time of year for filling the shop with power has come. GLC has decided that it is cheaper to keep the shop heated all winter rather than letting the power idle ... (more)

Two 150-ton overhead cranes work together at the former Rock Island shop to load a former Santa Fe GP7 wearing Rock Island paint onto a BNSF flatcar. The re-incarnated Rock Island 1275 is going to... (more)

Two 150-ton overhead cranes work together at the former Rock Island shop to load a former Santa Fe GP7 wearing Rock Island paint onto a BNSF flatcar. The re-incarnated Rock Island 1275 is going t... (more)

Shop mechanics perform a sustained load test on SD24 No. 4511. They had the prime mover running full-out for at least a half an hour. Honestly, I don't know how they could hear each other, the sou... (more)

Iowa Interstate's Rock Island heritage "comes home" to the ex-Rock Island shop at Silvis, IL. What was once the running-repair building is now home to NRE's wheel truing lathe. The Iow... (more)

One of the few remaining "Bandits" won't be a bandit much longer. After spending the summer in NRE's deadline waiting for a turn through the shop for overhaul and repaint, the time has finally co... (more)

Long time Steamtown engineer Dick Roden hauls lube oil for his charge of the day, 1917 2-8-2 CN 3254. It's October 2012 and ole' '54 has less than 2 months of service left.

Santa Fe Barstow shops

While visiting NRE in Silvis to inspect Eldon, IA's GP7 purchase, we were allowed to tour the entire ex-Rock Island complex with an escort and proper PPE. CP 4521 and SVGX 8355 are in the shop fo... (more)

While visiting NRE in Silvis to inspect Eldon, IA's GP7 purchase, we were allowed to tour the entire ex-Rock Island complex with an escort and proper PPE. This ex-BN SD40-2 is in the process of be... (more)

While visiting NRE in Silvis to inspect Eldon, IA's GP7 purchase, we were allowed to tour the entire ex-Rock Island complex with an escort and proper PPE. There were several SOO GP38's in for rebu... (more)

The Rock Island depot museum in Eldon, IA has purchased a former Santa Fe GP7 from NRE in Silvis and is having it restored and painted as Rock Island 1275 in the red/yellow scheme with large white... (more)