One Night Only. On the evening of Friday, June 17, 2021 BO 51 (EA, EMC, 5/1937) was on display at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland along with AMTK 100 (P42DC, Midnight Blue) ... (more)

Altoona Native NS 8688, a C39-8E sits dormant at Altoona. Nowadays, it doesn't really run so much, rather being used as a rolling fuel tender for emissions testing.

Unpacking The Eagle. On October 1, 2023, NJ Transit hosted a display of locomotives and private cars on loan from their owners. This was the first such event since the last "Hoboken Festiva... (more)

Stored locomotives at the EJ&S Yard.

Five Montana Rail Link EMD six-axle locomotives, used as a helper set on Bozeman Pass, head downgrade back to Livingston glinting the setting sun on October 10, 2005. Westbound trains get plenty o... (more)

A former BNSF SD9 rests beneath a star filled winter sky in rural Nebraska. The H1 paint scheme on this unit is holding up nicely. This is certainly a rare breed.

SOO 1003 crosses the Rock River as it slowly departs Janesville on its way to Chicago. For record purposes SOO 1003 was running as LLTX 1003 under WSOR symbol Y303.

Cumberland Mine Railroad locomotive #1 pulled up and spotted and is in position ready to begin loading.

Built 4/1945

LA JUNTA CO June 16 1979 — A pair of ATSF SD39s sit at the La Junta fuel racks. EMD built the 4016 (s/n 35036) as a Locotrol master in May 1969 and delivered it in Bookends livery with blue body... (more)

Rock Island EMD E9A 662 leads a 4 unit set of E and F units for a freight train. The new RTA F40s freed up some of these units from there Commuter train roles making for a strange looking set of... (more)

Something I have not witnessed on the River Sub in a while- a unit tank train. Once called K trains. Here CSX 294 gets underway at MP43 as an empty general bulk carrier heads north.

Union Pacific SD40-2 1592 (marked as a "D40-2" on the cab) sits in the snow at Hoffman Yard, awaiting its next call to duty. Built by EMD in December 1979 as Union Pacific 3645. (Saint... (more)

Santa Fe train number 4, the California Limited, is seen approaching Lamar Colorado in 1950. ATSF 3455 is coupled to EMD F3A number 24. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Norfolk & Western #611 rolls into the historic Staunton station, where it will be pulled back to Goshen by a pair of Buckingham Branch diesels. The current depot was built in 1902 by the Chesapeak... (more)