Rebuilt using EMD switcher frame and trucks and using a Caterpillar 3512 prime mover with a Kato generator. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

Rainbows And Unicorns | Below a brilliant sky on the evening of Monday, April 15, 2024, a pair of the Arkansas & Missouri Railroad's Alco C420s rest at the depot in Springdale, AR. A haven ... (more)

The diminutive size of the Colorado Railroad Museum's Golden City & San Juan Railroad's 8 Ton switcher is evident as it sits in front of a narrow-gauge caboose at the Golden, Colorado museum.

SW8 #11 is keeping busy this morning at Cleveland Cliffs in Riverdale, transporting ladle oxygenation cars back and forth between the basic oxygen furnances.

Copper Basin Railway train OT-1, with 60 cars loaded with 7800 tons of sulfide ore from the copper mine at Ray, heads southbound through a Saguaro forest toward Ray Junction on its run to the smel... (more)

CP SD40-2 6025 leads the "World's Largest Watermelon Slice" North towards the riverfront in Muscatine where it will be lifted by crane to its final home.

The twice a week Copper Basin Railway departs east out of Magma after its interchange with the Union Pacific on an late morning in early September.

A quintet of Freeport McMoRan EMD GP38/38-2s haul a train of sulphuric acid tank cars up the steep grade between Clifton and Morenci, Arizona, on October 27, 2020. The subdivision spread out behin... (more)

Copper Basin Railway GP9 207 (ex-Burlington Northern 1893, originally Northern Pacific 276) leans into the curve at the junction leading to the copper mine at Ray as it brings train OT-1, comprise... (more)

The last of three departures from Nashville's Riverfront Station has just taken off.

A Copper Basin Railway employee releases the handbrake of water car No. 0011 as a crew prepares for a short trip to just west of Hayden, Arizona, were it will be used to spray down a dusty access ... (more)

The northern lights shine bright in Duluth, Minnesota as the North Shore Scenic Railroad slumbers awaiting the day's excursions.

3 "Galloping Gooses" followed by 2 steam locomotives are lined up for a photo at the Colorado Crossings event at the Colorado Railroad Museum

Trying to keep my balance standing in the rushing waters of the Hog Creek, GLLX 4428, one of two remaining Grand Trunk & Western GP9’s still in active services switches cars around Lineage Logis... (more)

Copper Basin Railway’s OT-1 ore shuttle train prepares to dump its train of copper ore at Asarco’s unloading facility at Hayden, Arizona, on April 20, 2017. The arriving CBRY OT-1 unloads the ... (more)