Will Eritrea be the first country in Africa to introduce a high speed service between Asmara and Massawa? When we visited the shed in Asmara, we were surprised to discover this Eritrean "version o... (more)

SNIM (Mauritania) SD70ACs #CC-122 is the first of its kind produced early this year at Progress Rail in Muncie, IN. The SNIM unit now operates in the country of Mauritania in North Africa. You w... (more)

This strange creature parked at Bord na Mona's Blackwater Works was once a Massey-Ferguson 135 tractor, converted by the railroad's shop forces into a rail-mounted utility vehicle. Bits of ingenu... (more)

Completed in December 2010, this Progress Rail PR43C still has that showroom shine as it sits in a siding in downtown Jesup, just down the road from the Progress Locomotive Shop in Patterson where... (more)

Just days after being unloaded off a ship from Europe at Houston, Southern Pacific's second generation German Krauss-Maffei diesel hydraulic 9005 is paired up with an F-7 at Eugene, Oregon roundho... (more)

UP GP-35 762 guides two ugly-duckling GE 4500GETL 4500-hp units 60 and 60B eastward on a train into Cheyenne, Wyo yard as a C&S SD-9 crosses overhead ahead of the train.

Two U.P. U-50s, 43 and 44 as well as a GP-30, bring a westbound freight through North Topeka, Kansas on May 23, 1965.

Can you believe it? This 144-year-old locomotive is on outdoor display at the Michigan Iron Industry Museum, located at the site of the Jackson Iron Company mine in Negaunee. The "Yankee" was bu... (more)

Wow, a sunny April day in Oregon?? Grab the camera. Forty-four miles south of Portland, the 2nd section of scheduled Train 665 is considered "westbound" on SP at Brooks, Oregon headed for Eugen... (more)

A EMD re-engined DL109 taken from the Roosevelt Road overpass.

The Hornell Shops did not spoil the appearance of Baldwin DRS 4-4-1500 #1105 during conversion to a slug. It looks pretty much like a proper Baldwin B-unit would.

Former US Army Alco RS-1s that were shrouded for use on ARR passenger trains in the 1950s. Unit 1072 is shown with "B" unit 1053 at Fairbanks.

Former US Army Alco RS-1s that were shrouded for use on ARR passenger trains in the 1950s. Unit 1074, shown with "B" unit 1075 outside the Anchorage shops, was retired in 1966.

Wayne Allen photo.