Got Alcos? The Nevada Northern Railway certainly does. You are looking at NN Locomotives #109 (closest), a 1950 Alco RS-3, and #201, a recently-repatriated 1951 Alco RSD-4. In addition ... (more)

A passenger train on the Pacific Harbor Line!

As a terminal railroad, the Pacific Harbor Line isn’t normally thought of as an operator of passenger trains. So it was quite a s... (more)

NS 8723 sits at Cresson Steel, along with 3 other top hats, all awaiting an uncertain future...

Re-Strung. Scranton Snow Sweeper 107 (C&JER, 1910) has recently had its broom replaced on one end. It was brought out for the night shoot and posed next to Johnstown car 311 (Wason, 1922) o... (more)

BN 800, a former NP F9A, gets some attention in the Interbay shops in Seattle, WA. This area tended wheel/axle changeouts as well as traction motors (one to the left). A former Burlington Route SD... (more)

A former Santa Fe SD45-2B is seen stored at Coast Rail Services in Anaheim.

Sea of Snow
A sea of snow in the mountain valley awaits the slow steady march of the machine of oil and coal and sweat.

An old RJ Corman coal gondola sits abandoned and partially scrapped outside Cresson Steel. These cars were briefly used in coal shuttle service on RJ Corman's Pennsylvania Cluster. The once cherry... (more)

Wisconsin Lite Rail Rule G violation? This Davenport 35-tonner is on display at a liquor store in northeast Wisconsin. No frame number visible so I'm not sure who originally owned this &q... (more)

Rolling out of Rock Tunnel
Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad 2-8-2 No. 489 leads an eastbound passenger train out of the east portal of Rock Tunnel between Osier, Colorado, and Toltec, N... (more)

An F125 Test Train heads east on the San Gabriel Sub bound.

Chama's 1899 Roundhouse Two 1875 woodburners, the 4-4-0 "Eureka" and 2-6-0 "Glenbrook," stand outside the remaining two stalls of the former Denver & Rio Grande Western... (more)

A old Baldwin DT 66-2000 center cab rests out of service at Peabody coals large facility in Lenzberg Illinois in the fall of 1975. at the time there were several other Baldwins still in service... (more)

Metra trains wait out the commuter’s work day laying over at the BNSF/Metra coach yard along Canal Street (since CB&Q days, nicknamed the Zephyr Pit) at Chicago, Illinois, in a view from Rooseve... (more)