"Portioning the Pantograph"

On the afternoon of October 29th, 2023 Amtrak ACS-64 605 suffered an issue with its pantograph between New Haven Union & State Stre... (more)

Norfolk Southern Wabtec/RELCO MOW 992800MW sits on a short siding in Orangeburg SC. Photo taken at Russell Street crossing near South Carolina State University. NS992800MW was formerly NS 9553.

Lift And Separate. After bring moved to the Wells Road crossing on Sunday, November 12, 2023, on Tuesday, November 14, 2023, the locomotive was lifted off of the tracks and placed on 3 sepa... (more)

A single engine and four cars wait to depart BNSF and head back to their own yard on Rices Point in Duluth. Trains are small in the grand view of things.

How many men does it take to wash a 567 engine? BN 6110's engine gets a bath at Belknap St. Yard in Superior, WI, July 1973. Superior was once a location of major locomotive shops for the Great No... (more)

D&RGW #473 thunders north within the Animas River Canyon with her mixed train and sister K-28 #476 on the late afternoon of October 16, 2023. Behind her, the Colorado Rockies provide a majestic ba... (more)

Gray Granite Gets A Second Diesel Ready. With the Christmas Season coming, the Gray Granite Railroad has nearly completed work on GE 25T 0825 on Saturday, November 24, 2023. This locomotive... (more)

MARTIN UT August 9 1981. — Utah Railway RSD15 403 idles at the engine facility while awaiting its next coal train assignment. The alligator was built by Alco as Santa Fe 847 (b/n 83057) in June ... (more)

Nothing like seeing the sight of "Kentucky Black Gold" back out and about on the rails now days!!

A good number of BN's business car fleet was housed at the BN station in Minneapolis between uses back in 1973. Office car Red River poses at the end of a platform on a rainy day in March 1973, fe... (more)

The Louisiana Worlds Fair Daylight climbs the 1% grade to the Oregon/California state line on the second morning of its trip to New Orleans. Twenty minutes earlier, the train had departed Klamath ... (more)

COUNCIL BLUFFS IA Sept 28 1979 — UP U30C 2955 awaits an assignment. GE built the unit (b/n 40960) in October 1976. Utahrails.net records that the 2955 “was the last U30C on UP, retired on 19 S... (more)

P07 works a lumber yard at Mebane on the day after Thanksgiving.

Grain loads for Richmond head Eastbound at Buttons Bluff crossing the James River on a cloudy afternoon.

Metra's CB&Q heritage engine is seen heading into downtown Chicago as it passes the Amtrak's 14th Street Yard.