On October 11th CSX train Q581 encountered torrential rain and washed out track at Lilburn, GA as the remnants of Hurricane Delta passed through the region. Both of the lead locomotives of the tra... (more)

On August 28th, National Railway Equipment announced a consolidation plan that would close all operations at their Silvis and Dixmoor facilities in Illinois, as well as the facility in Milwaukee, ... (more)

Ex BAR F(3) A unit original number 44 renumber 502 has been stored for years at the Derby Shops by several railroads including BAR, IronRoad, MMA and CMQ is finally moving to a location that is un... (more)

SOLD! - In the fading light, recently rebuilt NS 4490 leads 15 SD70ACUs on their ride out of town. All have been hasty remarked 'PRLX' and are heading to one of Progress Rail's locomotive storage ... (more)

Just before sunset, priority mixed freight from Spokane, Washington to Northtown Yard in Minneapolis passes high above Lake Ashtabula behind a nice poker hand of 3 ACes.

Close Call!

With the headlights and ditch lights on at first glance this looks pretty scary. But after a second you realize the train is not on the main and the woman isn't run... (more)

NS 8462 is getting scrapped , its been in storage since 2016 , after being wrecked

On October 24, 1992, the Soo Line’s abandoned, former Milwaukee Road yard at Savanna, Illinois, is still populated by a large assortment of Soo and Milwaukee cars awaiting a date with the cutting ... (more)

"A Balao Class and a few Six Axles"

NYS&W SU-99 begins its run westbound up the Southern Divsion to Binghamton during sunset with three six axle units. The train is cro... (more)

Tucked back in a mountain crevice deep in the Eastern Kentucky coalfields, a creech mine run loads coal at the infamous Creech loadout in Harlan county. The old Mary Helen Coal Corp company store ... (more)

A 27 unit BNSF power move from Alliance is rolling just east of Sterling, NE on the St. Joseph Sub. The train is DP'ed 2x1 moving 24 Dash9's which are to be returned to service at Topeka Shop. Tha... (more)

A former Texas Star Clipper (nee-CNW) F7A, acquired back in 2012 by NS originally to be rebuilt as a new unit for the OCS, now sits quiet and decrepit on the end of a pipe plant siding a few miles... (more)

Up and over. New York & Atlantic Railway matched Progress Rail PR20Bs 300 and 301 lead local job RS-20 down the Long Island Railroad Bushwick Branch on the morning of Sunday, December 31, 2017. At... (more)

CN 2027 with taconite pellets from the Minorca mine is crossing over the former Duluth Missabe and Northern (DM&N) then it was the DMIR and now it's the CN bridge along the CN Iron Range Sub for T... (more)

Built as GE AC4400CW No. 205, CSX-rebuilt AC44CM No. 7225 is the solo head-end leader of a unit coal train from the mines of eastern Kentucky, seen here eastbound through Marmet, W.Va., on CSX's e... (more)