Special Norfolk Southern locomotives help Atlantans breathe easier ATLANTA, Sept. 1, 2015 -- With Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal on hand to celebrate the success of a public-private partnership for ... (more)

Look at all bygones. Cars on open railcars. Electric freight on a major railroad. Railfans have been accused of living in the past. Maybe we just notice change more than others. I cherish thi... (more)

I found it amazing how fast a paint shop worker (carman by trade) could “stripe” a locomotive in the paint shop at Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Here,... (more)

Union Pacific ES44AC No. 5401 gets lettered, striped and “Scotchlited” inside the paint shop at the Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 18, 2015. Skilled workers like ... (more)

Union Pacific SD70M No. 4609 sits in the sandblasting bay in the paint shop at North Little Rock’s Downing B. Jenks Shop on May 18, 2015.

Not a bad place to ride around the steel mill in the summer but not so sure I would want to be on this in January with the wind whipping down Lake Michigan.

On a beautiful summer afternoon in Erwin, Tennessee, two Generations of GE locomotives await assignment at the former Clinchfield Diesel Shop. CSXT 3251 is a new GE ET44AH, and meets all of the T... (more)

Not a great place to suffer a derailment. A light power set running around its ore train on the approach to Dock 6 had the lead truck of 6252 derail at a crossover, fortunately at slow speed. This... (more)

Iowa Interstate's Rock Island heritage "comes home" to the ex-Rock Island shop at Silvis, IL. What was once the running-repair building is now home to NRE's wheel truing lathe. The Iow... (more)

One of the few remaining "Bandits" won't be a bandit much longer. After spending the summer in NRE's deadline waiting for a turn through the shop for overhaul and repaint, the time has finally co... (more)

At the Oregon Rail Heritage Center, Southern Pacific GS-4 4449 gets a major overhaul. The big Lima-built 4-8-4 is getting its 15-year boiler inspection, and other needed maintenance is being done... (more)

Inside the paint shop at Union Pacific’s Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 18, 2015, two workers (along with two more on the other side) thoroughly rinse EMD SD70M No. 4609 after... (more)

Always Expect a Train.. Highway 30 follows Union Pacific's Transcon mainline across the state of Nebraska and along this line, there a lot of railroading crossings. In Lexington, there is r... (more)

Freshly painted and awaiting its new set of number boards, this older GE is not only in new paint but is the first one of the recently announced heritage celebratory locomotives and has the Seaboa... (more)

Traveling south on the Lineville Subdivision, CSX Q647-05 goes into emergency. The conductor walks the train and finds that it has broken a knuckle. The separation accrued between the 96th and 97t... (more)