Still sporting its DRGW paint job.

The real prize when visiting the Dardanelle and Russellville was this honest-to-goodness cast-frame, Winton-engine, Electro Motive Corporation switcher from the 1930's. Fortunately, this locomotiv... (more)

Several locomotives await work at just outside Union Pacific’s Omaha Shops in June 1981, including GP9s Nos. 269 and 150. Behind them is the 1,007 by 150-foot main shop building. This entire 100... (more)

Ghost in the Machine - What is left of UP 669, a EMD GP38-2 sits forlornly in the yard Jacumba Station attached to a small, equally dilapidated Alco switcher. Available pictures show th... (more)

Two Cars Back - A set of five (5) former Chicago Northwestern (CNW) commuter cars that were acquired by Chicago Metra (METX) and later sold as surplus lies derailed across the turnout at Du... (more)

We meet again... On February 26, 2006, I photographed Soo Line GP40 2064 in Canadian Pacific's engine facility in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Eight years, seven months and six days later I pho... (more)

After the Lehigh Valley took over the CNJ lines in Pennsylvania in 1972, the LV main between Bethlehem and Lehighton was redundant trackage. The LV chose to keep the tracks operational, primarily ... (more)

Delaware & Hudson blue paint sure didn't last on this former Lehigh Valley unit.

TIS A COOL NIGHT IN NEBRASKA IN 1979 Not really, but you wouldn't be able to tell otherwise if it wasn't for this description. And that's what I love about the Hartwell Railway! There are s... (more)

These battered old warriors were once the go-to power for the SP to get their trains across the western states, but those days are now long gone. But it appears these brutes may get another lease ... (more)

They were known as "buffalo", due to their somewhat ungainly appearance. The Union railroad had a large fleet of Baldwin road switchers that they re-engined with EMD prime movers in the early 1960... (more)

An old relic has shown up on the Evansville Western property in Mount Vernon Indiana.

ex-JKL 7311, exx-TIPP 7311, nee-C&O 7311/1811