Loram RG316 holds the siding at Virginia, MN waiting for another northbound CN freight to pass before heading north themselves to do work on the CN Rainy Sub under the cover of darkness.

A new frog is lifted in place using a Union Pacific crane manufactured by Little Giant at Mounds, Utah, on May 11, 2006. A large group of maintenance-of-way personnel gathered to replace a worn ou... (more)

A new frog is being installed on the west switch at Mounds, Utah, on May 11, 2006. Here, a member of the track department out of Helper uses a rail saw to cut rails of the new frog based on precis... (more)

Yellow Box Wreck - On or about May 5, 1965, a student engineer on his first day of work accelerated too fast around the turn by passing Tunnel 7 and this yellow box car derailed. The car... (more)

One of the recent additions to the leased motive power fleet at the Vermont Rail System is the Natchez Railway GP38-2 #2601. The unit is currently undergoing a 92-day FRA inspection before being ... (more)

In 1992, Metra pondered a radial route on the EJ&E. I happened upon this train being prepared to film the route for Metra/EJ&E "brass." I was told the camera man would be riding there wi... (more)

UP 8069 and company rest in the Departure Yard of West Colton as a pair of SD40-2's hurry back into the yard. The crew van has just arrived, the Carmen have inspected the train, and the blue flag ... (more)

Two GE AC4400CW-CTEs slumber the night away at Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande North Yard in Denver, Colorado, on December 22, 2012.

Under the glow of the early morning sky, there is quite the variety of power sitting at Bryan Park to include GP15's, a GP15T, SD40's, GP40's SD50's and the one lonely GE locomotive at left.

NS 6194 sits out of service after being involved in a side swipe with train 314. You can see the damage on the engineers side at the front of the locomotive.

Vestibule to Nowhere Awaiting a meet that will never arrive, THPX 801 sits like a ghost on Carrizo Gorge Siding with the empty mainline in the foreground. The turn in the mainline that ru... (more)

One of the small handful of high hood SD40-2s remaining on the NS system sits in Gainesville until it's needed by local trains which will start running again during the week. Most of these units a... (more)

Kansas City Southern intermodal train I-DAAT (NS 220) terminates at Inman Yard in Atlanta with an increasingly uncommon gray SD70MAC leading. Since the closure of the hump yard a good while ago, I... (more)

During last years gravel season the balloon track was removed at the Palmer load-out making it necessary for the crews to make a long back up move, so the RR re-instated one of the three remaining... (more)

Organ donor at the morgue - This locomotive has breathed its last, and is being stripped of usable parts before being sent to the crematorium. Piles of donated parts from earlier patients lay in t... (more)