On duty at 0200 at Proctor, this crew departed the yard and ran up the Missabe sub. with their trio of BLE motors and 138 ore cars for loading here at United Taconite. It's now 1000 and traffic ha... (more)

Interesting Up Front … And on the Rear!

Accelerating out of Fullerton as it heads to Los Angeles from Chicago, is Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief. This s... (more)

The 0-4-0 T steamlocomotive # 6 "St.Gallen/Widnau" will soon cross the 260 meter long Wiesenrain road and rail bridge over the Rhine between Widnau/Switzerland and Lustenau/Austria, pass... (more)

It appears that winterization hatch is needed as the old beast drills some freight cars. Photo by unknown. From my collection.

A Morristown & Erie local crew drills cars off of a siding at Eden Lane as a car moves through the grade crossing.

A set of road power with UP 3034 leading at Pepper Ave.

0-4-0 T steamlocomotive # 6 "St.Gallen/Widnau" of the 75 centimeter gauge "Rheinbähnle" of the association Rhein-Schauen in Lustenau, is crossing the Rhine over the 260 meter ... (more)

"Monstrosity" might be a better model name for this beast. Perhaps "Horrible Heffalump" There were lots of old E unit prime movers around in those days and the guys at Waycro... (more)

Milwaukee District North Line train #2621 with the Milwaukee heritage MP36 is seen through the former West Side Elevated bride at Paulina Street.

ELK CITY OK July 28 1985 — Farmrail GP7 620 is tied down at the station. EMD built the unit (b/n 17357) in October 1952 for the Florida East Coast as FEC 620. The unit was acquired by First Unio... (more)

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)

Stellar Lighting And Lightning Stripes. MTA Metro-North Railroad 211 (New York Central/40th Anniversary) held the markers on day one of the Employee Holiday Train on November 28, 2023. One ... (more)

VANCOUVER WA Sept 8 2008 — Columbia Business Center 80-ton Whitcomb CBCX 101 is stored near Thompson Metal Fab in the former Kaiser Shipyards. Whitcomb built the unit in July 1944 and delivered ... (more)

The Massachusetts Central Railroad's local crew has arrived at the end of the line in South Barre, Massachusetts and is in the process of working the transload facility here before heading back to... (more)

Good old ramshackle Haley, how we miss it, with its railfan guest book, friendly operator and three busy railroads. Here a southbound freight, probably the daily Louisville train, is rattling pa... (more)