A bad order traction motor is in the process of being changed out on Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6300 at the railroad’s locomotive shop in South Morrill, Nebraska, on September 14, 2017. Using a... (more)

Union Pacific EMD SD70M No. 4609 gets “sandblasted” and cleaned during prepping for a new paint job in the paint shop at UP’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 18, 2015.

A quartet of EMD SD40-2s power an eastbound Union Pacific freight at Hermosa on UP’s route over Sherman Hill in Wyoming in July 1984. The train is entering a cut that leads to the twin bores of He... (more)

Fifty years ago, May of 1968, SP ALCO Hydraulic #9151 led a Pacific Locomotive Association "Truckee Limited" from Oakland to Truckee and back. Held outside of Sacramento on the return tr... (more)

American Motive Power Inc. had a Trackmobile and their home constructed shop switcher, constructed from a variety of locomotive parts that were on hand, completing what they jokingly call a SW10.5... (more)

Tthis coal train had alot problems climbing the .40% grade out of the Mississippi River Valley between Gladstone and Kirkwood. Eventually the train stalled here at Kirkwood and the crew is now out... (more)

Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6704 is at the railroad’s South Morrill Locomotive Facility for an overhaul, with the new prime mover arriving from the staging area in the shop on September 14, 2017... (more)

Union Pacific autorack ETTX No. 800477 and CNW covered hopper No. 490441 getting some finishing touches completed at the railroad’s car shop in De Soto, Missouri, on September 28, 2011. The autora... (more)

QNS&L SD70ACe 501: Engineer's view of the northbound mainline, waiting for a meet at Nicman, Quebec mile 36.2

A bad order traction motor is changed out on Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6300 at the railroad’s locomotive shop in South Morrill, Nebraska, on September 14, 2017. Alan Ford writes up what is wro... (more)

Amtrak 68 the "Adirondack" had mechanical problems with the dash8 514 requiring a special move to bring an extra locomotive and coach from Albany to Montreal. Here is 68 passing through ... (more)

Here is something you don't see every day in Southern California, 6 Erie Lackawanna Electric MU (Multiple Unit) passenger cars sitting on the spur track in Colton! The Santa Fe main lines are to t... (more)

Mike Keim Photo

Bidding Farewell to 1954 Built Budd's, From a 1956-built Budd. It was a humbling moment as I snapped this picture - standing in the dome of the 1956-built, ex-CBQ dome car "Silver Splendor... (more)

Ordered by the French Military for use in World War 1,this loco was supplied by Baldwin in 1916.Following the ceasefire in 1918,she was sold to the Ryam Sugar Works,Bihar,India,where she worked fo... (more)