At Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, a welder (boilermaker by trade) carefully builds new lower pilot assemblies for the railroad’s SD40N rebuild program on May... (more)

Ozark Valley Railroad operates the northern end of the former KCS Fulton branch to serve industries in Mexico, MO.

Several Union Pacific GE AC4400CWs receive work outside, or await further rebuilding inside, the railroad’s locomotive shop located at South Morrill, Nebraska, on September 15, 2017. In mid-Octobe... (more)

One of the last CP Rail SD40-2s in service spends a pleasant spring evening tied down with CP SD30C-ECO 5035 adjacent to downtown Burlington. The visiting duo will be added to the consist BDRD th... (more)

Sitting cold on the house track on the north-end of the Tyner Branch on the CSX Western & Atlantic Sub we witness a not so common site on the branch. A lone 800 series ES44AH motor sporting the ne... (more)

The Strong One: In Garibaldi, Oregon, a railroading oddity sits on an unusually sunny Fall day. This is the "Skookum", a very rare 2-4-4-2 type steam locomotive. It was the first ... (more)

SMS Lines 102 catches a break of sun on a cloudy day in Morrisville, PA.

A "married pair" of NJ Transit Arrow III EMUs are shopped at the MMC for some attention. At 40+ years old, the venerable Arrows may be on borrowed time.

Under dark and heavy sky TCRX 6902 rushes pass the RTA-Martha Station through the sleepy community of Martha, TN. Fall Foliage Special is heading east of the former Tennessee Central now Nashville... (more)

Chasing the Cadillac of 1st Generation Diesels

With the ominous sound of a 4710 Hancock Whistle echoing throughout downtown Lebanon, TN, the Fall Foliage Trip hosted by the Tennessee Central Railroad Museum, eases it's way through the town on... (more)

Wearing CN paint, BCOL C44-9WL 4641 idles in the Bickerdike backtrack.

Metro-North's New York Central-painted FL9 2012 has apparently been prepped for shipment to a new owner. The unit seems out of place on the same track as a BL20GH and P32AC-DM...two of the units ... (more)

The power for CN's dedicated Cadomin-Edmonton rock trains U724/U725 idles outside of the Cadomin bunkhouse while the train crew catches a snooze as the train is loaded up the hill by a winch syste... (more)

CCGX SD40-2 5311 (ex CN 5311) and CCGX SD40M-2 5307 (ex CEFX 3130) sit idle north of CN's Rivers Sub diamond at Code, occupying CP's Yarbo Sub. They'll eventually head over to the mine to grab som... (more)