These R-2 boxcab electrics were purchased from the New York Central in the late fifties. They were originally built in 1931 and 704 was scrapped in April of 1976.

Built for the Rock Island by EMD as a lightweight passenger train. The three trainsets produced were deemed a failure and train set number 1 was scrapped in 1966. The two others were donated to mu... (more)

Display equipment just outside of the UP Laramie Depot.

A quartet of Tunnel Motors lead an eastbound Southern Pacific freight as it departs San Luis Obispo with California's Coast Range mountains (and a vineyard) for a backdrop. The power is SP SD40T-... (more)

052 rolls southward toward Columbia. This train will be handed off to the Lancaster and Chester at Chester, who will forward it to CSX. It then ran south on the Monroe Sub, ran around at the Ful... (more)

Overview of Rebuilding. The more than 130 year-old Park Avenue Viaduct around the MTA Metro-North Railroad Harlem-125 Street Station in New York, New York, is undergoing a multi-year rebuil... (more)

A Southern Rwy scale test car sits in the Wheel Balancing Shed at Spencer shops, NC. The shed, built in 1944, houses a set of eight Fairbanks scales connected to the tracks where steam locomotives... (more)

Three covered hoppers lay on their sides next to the mainline awaiting the cutting torch just north of Decatur Arkansas.

MoPac F7A 834 with GP7, F7B and F7A is on the lead of a hopper train at Sargent Yard in Memphis, Tennessee on November 19, 1967. Phil Gosney photo, from my collection.

UP 5762 westbound with one of UP's two geometry cars in tow.

ACWR's brunch train returns south through Pinehurst with their E9 leading.

The A Street overpass at Clifton Forge provides a place to take photos of passing trains. It makes for a nice juxtaposition from the modern and this vintage with the Chesapeake & Ohio Historical S... (more)

J14 is headed for a slip near Nolan, W.Va. with three rock cars and a caboose. Recent rains (and snow) have caused water levels rise into flood stage, evident here at Elijah Creek.

United Railroad Historical Society's observation car Hickory Creek, tavern lounge car 43 and Swift Stream going to Albany on the back of Amtrak train 233. This is the final Hudson River Rail Excur... (more)

The CSX Geometry train is headed east past the historic Joliet Union Station, crossing the diamonds with the BNSF and UP. After a day of inspecting the rails of the old Rock Island, the train is h... (more)