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

Amtrak "American View" #10004 is a home built Theater car created from one of the two prototype Viewliner Sleepers. The seats are recycled Superliner prototype seats and the carpet stil... (more)

Curry Rail Services and Tractive Power Corp. present the first Tier 4 Industrial Switcher. The unit, equipped with a Caterpillar C9.3 (400HP) engine, is Tier 4 compliant and rides on a standard EM... (more)

The scrapping of a classic, continued. The prime mover from an ALCO/MLW unit is loaded onto a trailer for further recycling offsite. This FL9 will be disassembled into sections and hauled off to... (more)

The scrapping of a classic, continued. As if proud of a fresh kill, the crane hoists the first chunk of this fallen FL9's body high for all nearby to see.

Montana Rail Link SW1500 No. 52 has some work done inside the backshop of MRL’s Livingston Shops on May 7, 2012.

The New Haven borrowed 38 U.S.Army locomotives to assist in the recovery from the floods of August 1955. Some were not returned until June 1956. I shot B-2044 in Providence, RI.

The scrapping of a classic. The scrappers successfully remove the first chunk of car body, but not without a fight. A few more cuts of the torch were necessary before she'd let go. This is the ... (more)

The scrapping of a classic. A scrapper torches the primer mover from an ALCO/MLW unit that met its fate just prior to this former Amtrak FL9... You're next, buddy.

The scrapping of a classic. I had the privilege of taking the last cab photo from this streamliner that made thousands of trips up and down the Hudson between Albany and New York City in its heyd... (more)

Not your typical long hood...AgRail 35 has a protrusion in its long hood which originates from its BM days, where the box held equipment to provide electrical power to the commuter trains it pulle... (more)

The Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp. members work with Kentucky Railway Museum's Mark Johnson, operating the crane, on removing the steam dome cap of 2716 in preparation of a evaluation of her curren... (more)

After nightfall it will be "lights, camera, action". Headed up to the Clinchfield from northeast Georgia for the weekend I made the usual stop at Dillsboro to check out GSMR's operation.... (more)

ATSF 8787 and ATSF 8786 proceeds very slowly on the north track past the derailment site located just north of Highway 138 in Cajon Pass. Heavy rain storms caused track damage and ATSF 3338, ATSF ... (more)

A trip out for my birthday and a view of the workshops in the National Railway museum in York. A4 Sir Nigel Gresley is being examined in the foreground whilst other locomotives are waiting their t... (more)