In Eritrea, a few Russian Ural 375-D trucks that have been built in the Soviet Union in the 60’s and 70’s have been converted to run on rail wheels. They have been used in the Eritrean railway... (more)

After more than 45 years in regular service, the English Electric "Pimentinha" #9006, awaits preservation. BEHIND IT: we can see another electric locomotive, it's a GE 2+C-C+2 called V... (more)

This unusual RS3/GP9B pairing was assigned as a hump switcher at Penn Central's ex-New Haven Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, CT, where they rested among assorted other power. Not long after this pho... (more)

The New Haven Railroad once maintained a vast complex of freight yards, wharf trackage, and freight houses in South Boston, no trace of which remain today as the site is dominated by the high rise... (more)

Dragging north with a clean looking AS616. Joe McDaniels photo from negative in my collection.

Duluth Missabe and Iron Range C630 902 resting at N. Fond Du Lac WI April 1976. The 902 is on it's way to Cartier Mining Railway in Quebec and is being forwarded by the Soo Line to presumably Chic... (more)

Penn Central was never known for colorful locomotives! A pair of minimally redecorated former New Haven units, a Century 425 and a U25B, depart the north end of Cedar Hill Yard in North Haven, CT,... (more)

CP Baldwin switcher no. 7069 idles on the waterfront in downtown Vancouver, BC between switching assignments.

On display at the 75th Anniversary Open House at General Motors Electro-Motive Division’s plant in Illinois is Janesville & Southern (a fictional railroad) 52, a BL-2. Built by EMD in March 194... (more)

CP 7070, an aging Baldwin DS 4-4-1000 idles at the engine facilities at CP's Pt. Coquitlam Yard.

The new and the old. CP wide vision caboose no. 434493 gets shoved around Pt. Coquitlam by a vintage Baldwin DS 4-4-1000 updated to CP's candy cane scheme. The caboose has a longer life ahead than... (more)

By 1970 it was rare to find an F-unit in a freight lashup on the former Boston & Albany. Here an unusual GP40/F7B/SD35 combination approaches Boston's Beacon Park Yard on the point of an eastboun... (more)

Alco switchers dominated the yard jobs at Boston's Beacon Park Yard in late New York Central and early Penn Central days. Ex-NYC S2 9649 worked the west end of the yard on a spring afternoon. Note... (more)

Built in 1952, this AS-616 has regained its former SP number. After leaving the SP system, the unit worked the Oregon and Northwestern, an eastern Oregon lumber railroad until the closing of the m... (more)

Less than two weeks before the coming of Amtrak would put it out of its misery, Penn Central train 427 rolls west through Wellesley, MA, on the former Boston & Albany. A single E8 and a snack bar ... (more)