Holly Sugar used a small industrial locomotive to switch empty beet cars at its sugar refinery in Hamilton City, California.

What a cool place. Webster is located a little ways to the west of Sheldon. This is the location of where the Toledo Peoria & Western railroad crosses the former Milwaukee Road line towards Terre ... (more)

A Nevada Northern Railway conductor slowly brings steam locomotives No. 40 and No. 93 back to a hook on a string of boxcars and passenger coaches as the epic, doubleheader prepares to depart for a... (more)

"Insta-Track" (TM). At the WW&F Railway Museum, track-laying definitely follows a very scripted process. Once a pair of rails are in place, crews immediately begin attaching tem... (more)

Joining the rails. With the rail in place on the tie-bed, WW&F crew members go about the task of attaching joint bars to couple the new section to the previous one. Note the small track c... (more)

"Elmer" in action - Laying down rail. The WW&F Gantry Car "Elmer" delivers a length of rail to the crew working in front of the train. A traveling crane with chain fal... (more)

"Elmer" in action - Tie Placement. Beginning a rail-laying cycle, the WW&F Gantry Crane "Elmer" has just delivered a tie bundle to the ground in front of the work train. Each bundle conta... (more)

WW&F Track Construction Gantry Car: "Elmer". Here's a clean view of the WW&F's recently-developed track construction gantry car, affectionately known as "Elmer". This car, and its accompan... (more)

Ferrocarril Roca Terminal and 9 de Julio Highway at left, in a crowded saturday dusk

The world-famous Stephenson's Rocket is now on show at the National Railway Museum in York for at least 10 years. The original 1829 early steam locomotive ran on the world's first inter-city passe... (more)

Former B & O station with a siding and several spurs that appear to service a lumber yard in the back. West Main St., Rochester NY, featured on the Food Network for the Nick Tahou Hots' world fam... (more)

Repair (change of an axle) on a track work car of the Matisa, with a road crane of Emil Egger company, in Winterthur freight yard.