Rainbow Era Throughout 2023, and now 2024, Norfolk Southern has experienced systemwide power shortages thanks to their 2019 locomotive purge. At the end of the year, after leasing a small ... (more)

Two cabooses bring up the rear of an Otis-bound train from Rochester. The cabooses were brought down from the Fore River Transportation railroad to attend Mass Coastal's Railfan Day. Before return... (more)

British Columbia Railway Weathered MLW C630m 703 rests Near the roads shop in North Vancouver on a fine September morning in 1977. It still looks good in spite of its weathered appearance Photo ... (more)

Morning fog

An empty bottle train works back towards East Chicago. The train just came out of the ArcelorMittal steel-making plant in Riverdale, These bottle trains are loaded at 3 different blast furnaces in... (more)

Milwaukee Road EMD SD40-2 No. 186 sits alongside the enginehouse at the railroad’s locomotive facility at Bensenville, Illinois, on February 7, 1987.

US Steel SW8 #1247 is seen moving a cut of bottle cars around the USS Granite City Works.

WNYP 426 leads a fairly long westbound out of the yard at Olean behind a pair of four-axle Alcos.

With a mixed of mechanical and ice reefers on the head end, Extra 3617 East heads into the yard at Yardley, Washington with units 3607 and U25C 2512 in August 1968. Fruits from central Washingt... (more)

BRC's South Side Industry Job, running as SOSI, is seen pulling empties out of Nucor Steel off 74th Street in Bedford Park, IL.

A dramatic sky is overhead as uncommonly two trains are in Lachine IMS Yard simultaneously. At left CPKC 112 is waiting for CPKC 119 to finish its lift before heading to St-Luc Yard with its power... (more)

Working The Old USX Yard. A US Steel SW1500, currently assigned to the Gary Works mill, is seen working cars at the old USX Yard on a sunny morning. Trailing is one of the former EJ&E SW's ... (more)

A mixture of KCS and CP power sits at the ready tracks at Bensenville Yard on a beautiful morning on the first day of Fall 2023.

Built by the American Locomotive Company in July 1951 for the United States Department of Energy (DOE 39-5309), this RS-1 was later sold to DuPont, which numbered it DUPX 107. In 2015 it was loca... (more)

CPKC 112 has autoracks up front (and unusually, more on the tail end) as it enters Lachine IMS Yard.