Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 awaits its return to hopeful service one day.

Union Pacific's famous 4-8-4 Steam engine 844 goes through the final phases of its thorough restoration. After reassembly, it hopefully will be ready for service by June of this year!

Several Montana Rail Link locomotives line the backshop of MRL’s Livingston Shops on May 7, 2012.

Amtrak is working to perfect hovercar technology for 2015...or 910 is in the shop for an overhaul. Resting on jacks while her trucks are rebuilt, and new wheels installed. Hard to believe just 3 s... (more)

PRR Class E6s 4-4-2 #460

PRR #460 is seen here (fireman's side) back in March of 2013 in the process of cosmetic restoration in the Museum's back shop.

The "lightweight" E6 clas... (more)

No, the Lindbergh Engine isn't prepping for surgery, that's just masking in preparation for painting the cab signal equipment box. Nearing the end of its lengthy cosmetic restoration, E6s #460, f... (more)

L&N 152 sits quietly in the Kentucky Railway Museum shop, after having preliminary disassembling done in preparation for her impending overhaul. KRM members have established "Crew 152" which is de... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe tried several test schemes before coming up with “Heritage I” paint for the merged railroad. One on them, applied to BN SD70MAC No. 9647 was not very popular, and ... (more)

This dual mode is in the shop for winter prep.

Like most railroaders will always tell you, things are always up in the air... Usually its what the day will hold for the employees, but today it is the 630 who is up in the air receiving some whe... (more)

This MP15 sits next to a very unique locomotive; a GP38H-3 that started life as a GP40TC. At first glance it may look like a run-of-the-mill geep, but there are numerous spotting features that se... (more)

In January 2011, the first Amtrak Heritage unit was fresh out of the paint booth. I was part of the Amtrak 40th Anniversary Team and went out to see the livery adaptation I co-designed and discus... (more)

C&O 5833 (without a trace of Hocking Valley ownership) sits among friends overnight. Taken on Hocking Valley property with permission.

Two 150-ton overhead cranes work together at the former Rock Island shop to load a former Santa Fe GP7 wearing Rock Island paint onto a BNSF flatcar. The re-incarnated Rock Island 1275 is going t... (more)

A view inside the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s Durango roundhouse on October 15, 2014, sees several locomotives in different states of repair. On the right is 2-8-2 Mikado K-28 No... (more)