One of the most famous steam locomotives in Hollywood, Virginia & Truckee #22, "Inyo, has starred in at least 35 film and television productions. Perhaps most notably, "Inyo" masqueraded as the W... (more)

Metra has been 'gambling' with the addition of large-scale advertisements on their lead cab cars and, occasionally, their locomotives. This seems preferable to the Jimmy John's paint scheme recent... (more)

An 80 ton GE center cab switcher, sits in the yard, in Fairbanks. This and one other center cab locomotive, were purchased from the US Army in Bayone, NJ, and were delivered in Fairbanks, in Janua... (more)

Lake State Railway is celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year and to celebrate the event LSRC GP40-3 4325 was placed in service wearing a special logo and the number board font and cabside road... (more)

This publicity photo of The 400 was taken for the C&NW Public Relations Dept. most likely around September 1939 when the streamlined train was first inaugurated. I was able to make a copy photo of... (more)

It still takes getting used to seeing these locos and this paint scheme running Metra commuter service out of Lasalle Street Station.

The Alcoa local returns across the Tennessee River to Knoxville in the morning fog, framed by the classic arches of the Henley Street Bridge.

A trio of abandoned GP40s and a wrecked centerbeam flat collect dust next to a automotive companion in Coyote Wells. The units were intended for use on the bankrupt Pacific Imperial Railroad, whic... (more)

Venice IL Aug 6 1976 -- Union Electric Lines 7 (left) and 4 are examples of fireless cookers. No 7 has already lost its headlight but still has its generator.

ARR switch job Anchorage Airport spur switching jet fuel cars.

Having just entered the former Monon Road (presently, in 1983, L&N) mainline from Chicago on trackage rights, a southbound Terre Haute to Louisville manifest tiptoes along J Street while obeying t... (more)

This is a Test. This is Only a Test...

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach tend to have a higher than average amount of air-borne particulates, due to all the ship, truck and ra... (more)

With the afternoon's monsoons passed, and pelting a different portion of the plains, the endangered former AT&SF semaphores in the ghost town of Colmor, New Mexico, faithfully guard the Raton Subd... (more)

Last week that there will be enough light to shoot the Chevron Savage switch job as it comes out of the Chevron refinery just after sundown. Here the job is building its train of pulls for BNSF un... (more)

There are about two weeks during the year that you can see the Savage/Chevron switch job in the blue hour as it generally leaves the Chevron refinery between 8PM and 9PM. Today it is seen shoving ... (more)