The Little Green Caboose?

Bringing up the end of a local, Burlington Northern caboose 10345 was formerly Chicago Burlington & Quincy 13575. This waycar (which is what the &qu... (more)

The mix and match days of CSX paint schemes. The former C&O caboose is still used today in 2016, but the paint is so faded and graffiti covered you can hardly tell what it was.

Mother Slug set works Conway Yard. Conrail 7574 (former PRR GP9 7265) was rebuilt by Illinois Central Gulf at their Paducah, KY shop and re-classified as a GP10. This unit was retired 4 months af... (more)

Looking rather ratty, this old unit gets some attention in the 70s. From my collection, photographer unknown.

Faded Glory

"Chopped" While on sort of a pilgrimage to visit the restored Raritan River Rail Road boxcar #100, East Penn's EPRY 57 (Alco RS-1) was parked along the Front Street. It seems to have seen ... (more)

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)

UP 189 has served for 25 years, but just has a couple more years left. It is sort of working old home territory as it switches in the former Cotton Belt yard in Jonesboro.

Looking rather old forty years ago.

F9 93A is doing transfer duty as she passes through Milwaukee Road freight yard in Milwaukee, Wis. It's February 1976 and the unit will have no need for its Cummins generator installed in the ear... (more)

A pair of Chicago & North Western geeps spend a summer morning in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin.

Former Burlington Northern E9 No. 9912 faces former Bessemer and Lake Erie F7 No. 715 at Nashville’s Tennessee Central Railway Museum on a rainy May 9, 2014. To quote Neil Young, “Rust never s... (more)

Baltimore & Ohio SW900 9407 spends the weekend with another EMD switcher at the Arlington enginehouse on Staten Island. Within a few years, declining freight business on the island would spell an ... (more)

Another view of B&O 6525 which is owned by the Great Walton/ Hartwell railroad. It sad to see a locomotive of this heritage in such bad condition. but it still is amazing to see the Chessie System... (more)

B&O 6525 sits in a Industrial area of Athens Georgia on a warm January day. It is surprising to see a locomotive of its age still in pretty decent condition.