Renfe's 253 series is probably the most extensive in its fleet of freight trains, with around 100 units. In recent years, these locomotives have had serious vandalism problems due to graffiti. It ... (more)

Union Pacific's El Segundo Local has just picked up the pulls it had left in Hawthorne for its run to the end of the branch, and is now on its way back to Los Angeles. The pipe barely visible to t... (more)

Union Pacific's El Segundo Local heads east from its namesake town, passing a cement plant that is not railroad served. This job's power is left unattended during off hours and the local taggers h... (more)

A Chicago Metra F40PHM-2 or "Winnebago" number 219 is flying down the aptly named Race Track during a busy Chicago rush hour. This train is a limited stop express train originating in do... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Illinois Terminal Heritage Locomotive #1072 leads Train 186 East as they pass through Cook Springs, AL.

H-BAKBAR1 snakes around the S curve approaching Tunnel 2 with 6 GEs for power.

More than two dozen locos in storage at the NS yard in Elkhart Indiana due to Covid-19 Pandemic? or PSR?

Together with traditional buildings and funicular systems, street graffiti had become part of Portugal’s culture.

I really dislike graffiti on railroad equipment, and don’t make a point of specially-recording any of it in a photograph. But once in a blue moon a car will go by that catches my attention. On F... (more)

BNSF 2610 is heading toward the Minneapolis Cemstone plant on the west side on the Mississippi.

Arizona's monsoon season are like no other. From June to October, rain, rainbows, and thunder happen nearly daily. July 17, 2017 was no exception. Here, the sounds of four GE locomotives pulling a... (more)

One of the rattier units on the UP roster leads the Torrance Local back to Los Angeles as they head out of the job's namesake City.

Some cars just sit around too much. This artwork decorates a large covered hopper car moving to a plastics plant in Chippewa Falls on Union Pacific. I'm no fan of graffiti art on modern railroads,... (more)

Tractor pull!
Three covered hoppers dropped off at the grain elevator at Dexter, Iowa, on the Iowa Interstate Railroad are spotted by a reliable John Deere tractor. No need for a locomo... (more)