During the Second World War, the U. S. government had Pullman construct a large fleet of troop sleepers. After the war, surplus cars were purchased by several railroads and converted to various us... (more)

A great display of WWII era equipment rests on display near Tooele, UT.

Santa Fe owned two types of Burro cranes, the type 30 and the type 40. Type 30's had the pulleys for the boom arm located on the roof, while the Type 40's, such as this one had pulleys located in ... (more)

In Eritrea, a few Russian Ural 375-D trucks that have been built in the Soviet Union in the 60’s and 70’s have been converted to run on rail wheels. They have been used in the Eritrean railway... (more)

USAF 1687 creeps out of the 3 stall wooden roundhouse at Prairie Village, which houses three steam locomotives and a pair of industrial diesels.

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)

The Silver Bullet! If one had consumed enough Coors Light, seeing this speed by at a grade crossing might cause one to reconsider drinking! Valley Metro Rail LRV 143B heads west down Wash... (more)

One of ten 125-ton, 3,200 hp GE electrics built for the Utah Copper Division of Kennecott Copper, No. 402 is exhibited at the Oquirrh Mountain Mining Museum near Tooele along with ore car 880 and ... (more)

Having seen Georg Trueb's and Markus Gemuer's wonderful photos of the Pilatus Bahn posted in the past week I though viewers might like to see one of the original rack & pinion steam railcars used ... (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)

Mercedes 914 Class rebuilt by Mopar in 97`s depart from Viacha bound Charaña stopped in the middle of nowhere at Calacoto location in the railway line from La Paz (Bolivia) to Arica (Chile). Two ... (more)

It's early on Sunday morning during the 2009 Fall Spectacular and EBT's home-built gas motor car M-3 has just emerged from its storage shed, seen here passing 2-8-2 17, on display on a cut of coal... (more)

Tucson, Cornelia & Gila Bend Car 401. One of the lesser-known gems in the collection of the Nevada State Railroad Museum is this Gas Motor Car from the Tucson, Cornelia & Gila Bend Railroad... (more)