The New Haven retired the last of its classic EP-4 class passenger electrics in 1961, but three of them remained in storage until 1968, only to be cut up in the railroad's final days. Having been ... (more)

T&P 610, one of the last, if not the last, of it's kind was pulled out for the first time in years after weeks of the railroad publicizing it. It was pulled out then number 30 and 7 were staged on... (more)

GG1 4934 rests at Cooperstown Jct NY

This is not the way to treat a carload of beer. A split switch just south of the Birmingham station caused quite a pileup over half a century ago..

What can happen when a freight train splits a switch. Workers can be seen carrying cartons of Schlitz Beer from a damaged box car. Many a bottle of brew from Milwaukee was snatched by members of ... (more)

Sold to the Illinois Railway Museum by the Virginia Museum of Transportation, the locomotive was towed to Altoona, PA for a cosmetic restoration, which never happened. This summer (2017) it made i... (more)

A derailment that took place where the railroad crossed Royal Oak's Main St. After waiting several hours, a southbound passenger train managed to creep by on a seldom used siding..

The Soo Line’s roundhouse in Gladstone, Michigan is only two stalls in this 1986 view. Although I’m sure that the structure had quite a few more stalls in its heyday, today none of them are le... (more)

Former loco 114 "La Bête de Calvi" now retired, waiting for an unlikely preservation...

While driving on I-81 I'd noticed a white E unit for quite some time. One day when I had some time, I decided to wander around and see if I could get closer to find out what it was. To my surpri... (more)

With a GP15T and GP30 bringing a local out of the east end of Barr Yard, B30-7 5554 and an EMD sit in the weeds awaiting rerailing after a slight mishap where the units were shoved off of the roun... (more)

Four hoods from ATSF 6300 U-boats makes handy and instant sheds at Argentine Shops, Kansas City, Mo. Feb. 16, 1980. Conrail unit 3683 at left will be headed back home.

15 old prime movers slowly rust in the early morning light in Waycross, Georgia. This is at the Locomotive Specialist / NRE facilities, which are located just north of the CSX Rice yard, next to ... (more)

Old traction motors and new wheel sets are stored at the PowerRail Locomotive Services facility, where they will eventually be refurbished for use on future locomotives. The crane in the backgroun... (more)

The sun has just began to rise as former Illinois Central 1439 sits with , PW 3006 and another P&W B30-7AB locomotive at the Locomotives Specialist facility, which is north of the CSX Rice yard. ... (more)