"Just buy watercolor, it's cheaper." Do you suppose that was the conversation. Photograph by unknown from the collection of Sidney Vaught.

An ex Cotton Belt GP60 sits right outside the Redding Amtrak Station on a sunny winter morning. Its always nice to see something besides yellow along the UP Valley Subdivision.

Oklahoma Railway Museum's ex-US Army SW8 was recently restored in MKT colors. The museum operates the last remaining miles of the former Katy mainline to Oklahoma City. It is seen here pulling a... (more)

Alexis tower was a good place to catch a lot of action. 1691 is heading towards Detroit. The track on the far left was the C&O line. To the right of the C&O was the Ann Arbor. And last the track ... (more)

Two former BN units (BNSF 2897 is a GP39M and BNSF 1444 is a SD60M) head to the Denver Yard to shuffle freight cars.

A 40-foot Rock Island boxcar, along with a a pair of 50-foot Santa Fe plug-door boxcars (one not visible located behind these two), ended up being pretty nice storage units for someone at Slapout... (more)

When the station name comes off a station and is placed on a post, that’s a clue something is about to happen — Union Pacific’s station at Strasburg, Colo. was soon closed and moved away in ... (more)

Westbound Amtrak train at Springfield behind GP40TC #198 || Sept. 1987

Around all the communication wires two AT&SF derricks carefully pick up a loaded Columbia Southern Chemical tank car with a PPG herald at Caldwell, Texas on Jan. 4, 1971. Note semaphores were st... (more)

Guilford Maine Central GP7 #470 Buffalo, New York SK yard November 28, 1987.

A Detroit Edison coal train rolls south (timetable north) on the Monongahela Manor Branch. These trains were heavy, typically with mid-train helpers and upwards of one hundred and forty 140-ton ho... (more)

UP’s subsidiary Spokane International’s Alco RS-1 with the funky additional headlight was assigned to yard duties at Topeka, Kansas and was shut down on its Sunday rest day behind the station,... (more)

3 of 4 operating locomotives at the Bluegrass Railroad Museum are visible here. Left to right is ICG GP8 7738, nearing the end of her cosmetic restoration that has been occurring over the past 2 y... (more)

Autumn colors are already beginning to wane high on the slope of the Alleghenies as one among the daily procession of manifests ascends the mountain at MG. A set of helpers fore and aft assist the... (more)

Bethlehem Kaleidoscope 4 - During Conrail's early years, many foreign visitors spent time in Bethlehem mingling with the local power. Usually they were leased or run-through units. Here is a lease... (more)