A welder works on Helm Financial Corp. (HLCX) EMD GP38-2 No. 3837 at the boilermakers area inside the vast halls of Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 18,... (more)

The only surviving Daylight diesel sits nose to nose with ATSF 347C during the Worlds Strongest Man Tournament which is being held in Old Town Sacramento.

BNSF’s Sandpoint local, led by EMD SD60M No. 1411, is passed by the DPUs of a westbound BNSF unit oil train at East Algoma, Idaho, on February 4, 2021. After also meeting a westbound grain train, ... (more)

Rolling out across the James River Bridge is a pair of CSX manifest trains. At right is train Q416, which runs from Rocky Mount, NC to Cumberland, MD; while at left, Q409 heads south toward its de... (more)

Reading & Northern empty coal train WHJE passes the Stockton Mine east of Hazleton, PA. They're traversing the NS Hazleton Running Track as symbol KH09 to gain access back to home rails a bit furt... (more)

UP 6941 sits with MKT 213 and other various UP locomotives at the Union Pacific Omaha diesel shops. There were also Missouri Pacific, Western Pacific diesels at the shops, as well as the UP 951 E... (more)

Smoke oozes from Delaware & Hudson’s Belden Hill Tunnel after a southbound train’s power emerges from it. Four EMD’s and an Alco can now ease down the grade to Binghamton.

Little Depot in the Sky

A top the highest active railroad in the United States is the Cumbres Depot, nee Section House, straddling the divide at Cumbres Pass, elevation 10,015 fe... (more)

Strasburg Rail Road's 2-10-0 "Grande Dame" No. 90 captured in a pan shot at 1/15th just east of Carpenters Crossing, in Paradise, PA, at the Strasburg Rail Road.

No. 90 was built for the Great... (more)

Three IC "deathstar" SD70's rest in the yard on this nice summer afternoon. On this day, six black IC SD70's were assigned to the yard.

CN 323 is on its way back from Vermont with CN 8900 and CN 2284 for power as it passes a parked CN 529 which has NS 3621 as its sole power.

At Union Pacific’s De Soto car shop in Missouri, two men break down a freight car truck to its individual components for rebuilding on September 29, 2011. Here they are removing the springs before... (more)

A Union Pacific GE Gas-Turbine No.8 leads an eastbound manifest out of Hermosa Tunnel, Wyoming on July 17, 1960. Photo from my collection, no photographer listed on slide.

The 1880 Train's engines rest outside the railroad's Hill City shops as a thunderstorm rolls through the Black Hills.

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)