Northbound EC-4 Track Inspection Unit at Seacliff Siding.

On August 11th, 2015, Portland and Western's Westside district trestle in Sherwood caught fire and was lost. Three teenagers were caught, cited for trespassing, and charged with reckless burning, ... (more)

On August 11th, 2015, Portland and Western's Westside district trestle in Sherwood caught fire and was lost. Three teenagers were caught, cited for trespassing, and charged with reckless burning, ... (more)

The Prince Brothers General Store closed its doors in 1984, ending 112 years of continuous operation. Here a CSX power move rolls past the store on October 11, 1986, the same year that it was plac... (more)

Oh ... That's What the Flashing Red Lights Mean!

As Southern Pacific's Huntington Beach Hauler was heading back to Anaheim, a moron in a white car somehow failed to notice the... (more)

Full crew. Carlos Llamas, engineer, Mr. Bear, assistant engineer, and Jake Vigil, fireman, on the March 12-13 Friends of the C&TS snow plowing special. I understand Carlos is writing a book about... (more)

In what almost looks like a GP30 gaining ground on a Kenworth is actually Rio Grande No. 3011 being trucked through a temporary gap in the fencing at the Colorado Railroad Museum on August 11, 200... (more)

SD90s waiting for a rebuild

It was twenty years ago... BNSF was a brand new railroad. I worked at Kalmbach Publishing Co. as their corporate art director. On a whim, I sent Robert Krebs, then BNSF's CEO a drawing suggesting ... (more)

NS SD90MAC 7292 recently had its cab and electrical cabinet removed.

The mainline rails here are rusty and silent where once Rio Grande trains thundered out of Minturn, Colorado, attacking the steep grade 3% grade over Tennessee Pass. On August 12, 2015, at the eas... (more)

The new acquisition of ferromex for track works

I feel bad for all my friends who spend hours outside at night in the cold shooting the stars. Why, whenever I want to do that, i just come in here...(I know, I know, the stars are reversed. I dea... (more)

Santa Fe GP60M #146 was painted in the Maersk scheme and given a matching set of containers for use in a promotional film.