The sun sets at Norfolk Southern's Coal Pier 6 at Lambert's Point in Norfolk, Virginia. Coal Pier 6 is one of the largest, fastest, and most technologically advanced transloading facilities for co... (more)

A special move handling the first EMD F-125 for Metrolink came off the NS at Streator, IL and is running west on the BNSF to Los Angeles. The two GP60's brought the SCAX 905 and buffer cars from ... (more)

Bankrupt Milwaukee Road could not find funds to keep the Pacific extension alive, but still managed to put fresh paint and wash jobs on power in the core system as shown here at St. Paul. GP40 loo... (more)

The Cummins QSK95 demonstrator, CECX 1919, is seen leading Indiana Rail Road train SAHW-01, Indianapolis Senate Avenue Yard to Hiawatha Yard, southbound through Bargersville, Indiana with INRD SD9... (more)

The Cummins PR photo shoot using the Indiana Rail Road train SAHW (Senate Avenue - Indianapolis to Hiawatha Yard) with the QSK95 demonstrator, CECX 1919, leading INRD SD90MAC43 9013 has pulled dow... (more)

First shift paint shop supervisor David Smith inspects a Scotchlite Union Pacific shield and wings at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 18, 2015. These smaller “baby wings” are used on older... (more)

Somehow my wife was invited aboard an eastbound coal train just east of North Platte which got me invited as well. I was able to shoot a westbound before they departed.

Painter (carman by trade) Gary Dunlap carefully applies the Scotchlite flag decal to the side of Union Pacific ES44AC No. 5401 inside the paint shop at the Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Ro... (more)

A replica of President Lincoln's funeral car is unloaded at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. The museum will display the car, with related artifacts, from June through September. Built by Dave K... (more)

Not The Same As The Others

As the Twentieth Century was winding down, the Union Pacific announced in 1999 the first major changes to their staid Armour Yellow and Harbor Mist Gray pa... (more)

Looking more like a modeler's workbench than a railroad, CNW chop-nose fabricated windshield/head light panels are stored outside their Oelwein diesel shop awaiting installation on one of their GP... (more)

Distributed power units on the rear of a coal empty are framed by a repurposed elevated hopper at Attebury Grain.

CNW 4480 is in the process of being kitbashed from CNW 1659, a May 1953 GP7 into a chopped nose GP7R, at Oelwein, IA. Oelwein was the Chicago Great Western's main locomotive shop, acquired by CNW ... (more)

The re-erection of Conrail's LEMO Tower at Strasburg. LEMO (or J-Tower) is one of only two surviving Victorian Era two-story wooden PRR signal towers; the other being SHORE Tower in North Philly.... (more)

The 937 is in for some TLC.