Hundreds of locomotives call this yard home in Wyoming. This seems to be a major storage of useless power at the time. It's a shame that these locomotives aren't pulling freight all over the nati... (more)

Westbound intermodal train 21G has derailed on main 2 in the area of Allegrippus Curve. Located between MP 244 and 245, Allegrippus Curve is the one of the more severe curves on the east slope ,bu... (more)

The power - three SD40s plus three B367s - kind of tells you that is probably an important CSX train sitting just beyond the signal. That doesn't matter, as the Southern (well, ok... NS) long-ran... (more)

New prime mover
An EMD 16 710G3C prime mover is carefully lowered onto the frame of Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 8382 on May 18, 2015, at UP’s Downing B. Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, A... (more)

Cranemasters work to clear derailed covered sand hoppers. The hoppers broke free from the U.S. Silica plant in Berkley Springs and travelled down the industrial track (to the right in the picture)... (more)

Milwaukee Road Engineer Don Amby and his ever present pipe has turbo train 66 well in hand approaching Franksville,WI....

Freshly repainted Rock Island #2127 sits outside the yard office in Sumner, MS during a light rain fall. Yes, the unit is now classified as a C42-9. Rock Island made some software and horsepower u... (more)

Getting a spin
At the Union Pacific’s South Morrill Locomotive Facility in Nebraska on September 14, 2017, a General Electric 16-cylinder 7FDL16 from Union Pacific AC4400CW 6704 gets a s... (more)

In 1954 UP took delivery of 15 more 4500-hp turbines numbered 61-75, made distinctive by their recessed carbody for an external walkway called "veranda" style, and their four-truck arra... (more)

Shop forces install a new master retarder and switches at NS deButts Yard.

"Farewell to Amtrak GG1"excursion was sponsored by Lancaster and Philadelphia chapters, NRHS, using doubleheaded GG1 locomotives to pull the special train. The trip originated at Harrisb... (more)

A bit of a mishap in Dewey where three derailed cars has taken out the bridge over the Wildcat Slough just west of Dewey Illinois. Crews work to replace the bridge.

Southern Pacific’s westbound KCOAF (Kansas City to Oakland Forwarder) negotiates the canyon between Pando and Red Cliff, on August 2, 1996. Two GE AC4400CW locomotives from the Minturn helper pool... (more)

The Starlight Returns...To Daily Service. On May 27th I was looking for an excuse to get out and shoot something, and low-and-beyond, was rewarded with a surprisingly late Amtrak 14, the no... (more)

CaterParrott Railnet, job 16 is at Kelly, Georgia on the E line, a former Central of Georgia branch that ran from Machen to Covington where a connection was made with the Georgia Railroad. Caterpa... (more)