Leading a SB extra freight, dirty and relettered, this one still looks good as it passes by where double track ends and the siding begins. Never made sense to me but there was something about it ... (more)

Sitting on Display at the Danbury Railway Museum is New York Central E8A 4096, this engine as some history behind her and we found out just before she was retired that she was working for Amtrak f... (more)

The bicentennial celebration has been over for twelve years, but a faded tribute to the event is still hanging on near the Monongahela's shops in Brownsville.

D&H (CP) 7304 and another geep from the previous D45 sit in the Saratoga Springs, NY yard, awaiting assignment. 7304 is still in lightning strips and still is looking beautiful in morning light.

Quite an assortment sitting at the former TOFC ramp in Wayensboro, Virginia. Here sits SD70 #2514, GE C44-9W #8953 as well as a caboose #555017 that is used in switching local industries.

As I recall this is the south end of double track and north end of the Elizabethtown siding. I think that was because the double track was not CTC while the siding was. in any case this southbou... (more)

North Coast Railway No. 70 at Eureka - This and four other former Southern Pacific, later North Coast Railway GP-9's sit on the former Eureka house track in the yard downtown.

Dead Line - Three former Southern Pacific, later North Coast Railway GP-9's sit on the former house track of the yard in downtown Eureka.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was one of the last SD7s in revenue service in the country.

The Field of Broken Dreams in Eureka - NCRR 70 an EMD GP7, SP 2872 and three other former Southern Pacific GP-9's that have seen better days, sit oxidizing slowly away from the salt air tha... (more)

Dash 9-44CW 2508 and BC Rail Dash 8-40CMu 4625 pass the station in Brockville as they travel east on the Kingston Sub.

Two old ghosts of railroads past. These are about the only things left at CSX's Danville WV yard. No engines, no coal cars and no employees to be seen at this once busy coal yard. Sad.

Appearing not long for this world, Northern Plains Railroad 1400, a former BN GP10 that started life as a Great Northern GP7, sits at the line's shops at Lansford, ND.

Wasting away at the air museum.

A pair of dirty R.I. U33B's, led by 7-year old #291, pull a Council Bluffs bound freight across 63rd street in West Des Moines at a slow 10-20 mph as they smoke up the sky. The train is nearing t... (more)