It appears that the Denver Rock Island Railroad has a new pony for their Denver-based stable. SDCX 88 was built in 1959 for the Southern Pacific as a GP9. It was later rebuilt as a GP9R for the ... (more)

Looks like a New York Central inspired paint scheme. The IHB was the connection between all the railroads that came into Chicago.

A summer '76 vacation in search of BiCenntennial locomotives found KCS's version among my least favorites none the less unusual to say the least. I believe they had a couple painted in similar pai... (more)

Freshly restored New York Central E8A #4083 is alongside the "Hickory Creek" in preparation for the following day's URHS Transportation Heritage Festival, an open house at the restoratio... (more)

Here you see some fun at the United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey yard in Boonton, New Jersey. The "Century Green" paint on E-8 4083, believe it or not, is completely authentic for beg... (more)

A loaded coal train departs Seaboard System (former L&N) Ravenna Yard.

At UP Neff Yard we find an SW9 overhauled by Midwest Locomotive here in Kansas City, bound for Nucor Bar Mill Group, Jewett, TX. I *believe* this is a SW9, it has some mixed spotting features, so... (more)

By 1995 the WC had assembled quite a group of experienced craftsmen at North Fond du Lac Diesel. Always on the look out for ways to upgrade the power on the system, WC had bought three ex CSX GP40... (more)

Brand new GE B40-8 #107 for the Savannah River Site DOE facility near Aiken, SC.

Speeder has just came out of the colored tunnel portal.

Painted in an Indigenous inspired paint scheme named Buda-dji. There are 4 members of the 1720 class in this scheme and are almost exclusively used on Kuranda Scenic Railway passenger trains.

An Alco S1, redundant from use at the Margam Steelworks, Port Talbot, and still several thousand miles from home, mounted on a stub of track outside the former loco works at Oswestry, now a retail... (more)

Freshly painted 201 coupled to ATSF 719 was soon put to work hauling unit rock trains from Parkdale Quarry through the Royal Gorge.Thanks to seeing this unit a few days earlier at BNSF Denver's Di... (more)