Working the Facility. The AIKR works the AGY facility located on the SA Line near Aiken. The SA Line is part of the original South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company line constructed from... (more)

Local Work. The AIKR works the STS facility located on the AB Line near Aiken. The AB line once extended from Aiken through Trenton to Edgefield, but now runs only slightly outside of Aike... (more)

Scoular Grain GP30 5001 is one of only two GP30s ever built by GMD in Canada – it was originally Canadian Pacific 8201, later renumbered to CP 5001 before being sold to SCOX, which retained the ... (more)

Ex Cimarron Valley GP30 at Broken Arrow facility.

A variety of vintage power and cars sit next to DRGW 3011 (GP30) at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado.

With work done at Liberty Rail, BNSF 2745 brings the Pikes Place local south into Pueblo on a beautifully sunny morning.

BNSF 2745, an ex CB&Q GP30, leads the Pikes Place local south on the Rio Grande portion of the Joint Line. With work on the Santa Fe southbound main, this guy was routed south down the usual north... (more)

Fremont, NE is where the C&NW mainline from Chicago joined the UP mainline from Omaha. C&NW freights came in and UP power was added to the front to continue west. Vise versa for Eastbound trains. ... (more)

Hey, a chase train can have its moment in the spotlight. Her a veteran of PRR/PC etc. is looking great after decades of drabness. Beautiful bygone schemes like this make me fearful that ugly is ... (more)

It Doesn’t Look Like a GP30 From This Angle!

Built in March 1963 as Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe GP30 1257. The Santa Fe later renumbered it to ATSF 3257 and, later still... (more)

Santa's North Pole Express being led by NHRR GP30 2198.

A pair of AOK GP30 locomotives waits for the next assignment at Wilburton Oklahoma.

Heavy snow falls on Denver and Rio Grande Western #3011 as it sits in the yard of the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado.

After hauling cars and passengers into to Whittier (back in the good old days) the daily mix is back where they will drop the flats and head back up Turnagain Arm toward Anchorage.

The Indiana and Northeastern Railroad were a little slow this week. Most of the elevators are empty in the Midwest with a good year of selling. Today the crew grabbed a couple of geeps and 4 cars ... (more)