After a 20-hour shutdown for a winter storm, the KYLE was back to business Thursday westbound towards Limon. Here the crew snakes over the grade between at Levant as the crew does their work on th... (more)

The New Kid On The Block. METX 504, one of Metras brand new SD70MACH’s sits outside of Progressive Rail’s shops in McCook awaiting testing.

An Amtrak B32 dash 8 sits at the Beech grove shops, Next to it sits an ex-VRE F40. Two outcasts surrounded by P40's and P42's.

Going back to Proctor yard with limestone empties.

Given the choice between an unturbo'd EMD 567 at full cry or one of these lugging into Norton, VA with a big train, I guess I would have to flip a coin as to which I like best. This L&N alumnus i... (more)

There are some cool relics along this old Rock Island mainline to Colorado Springs. A lot of the code line has been taken down along with some of the ABS signals. Here east of Brewster, along old ... (more)

After a 20-hour shut down for a winter storm, the KYLE was back to business Thursday westbound towards Limon. Here the crew snakes over the grade between Sleden and Rexford on the Phillipsburg Sub... (more)

I like the "big tractor" sound and the compactness of these little guys. Photo by Tony Vanier.

A rare find This old Santa Fe Zebra stripe GE 44ton locomotive # 463 was in use at the American grains plant in Plainview Tx in may 1977. this paint scheme was dropped by the Santa fe in 19... (more)

During Amtrak's first year one highlight was the tour of the United Aircraft Turbo Train across the country. I was able to catch it during its evening open house at Minneapolis. It had arrived fro... (more)

6675 on the rear of charter train full of UK railfans heading back to Phnom Penh is held in the loop whilst 6535 clears the single line with a heavy oil train.

After many years toiling for ATSF this old square face is tucked away in deepest western KY pulling coal from Central City to the largest TVA steam plant. And they called it Paradise.

Geometry train slows to allow Amtrak to cross in front of him at CP335.

PRR to PC to CR to HLCX leader in a rainbow consist. No name on the slide, from my collection.

Nothing quite like a big Alco Century... these were the most lovely of brutes, even a former Penn Central one that had been patched for Conrail. Regarding the black dirt, this was the Pit at Meado... (more)