Sittin' Pretty: The Rock Island's freshly painted duo of GP38-2s bask in the evening sunlight, as a friendly neighborhood pup enjoys the view of the beautiful engines adorned in "Rebor... (more)

A spectacular sunset is just wrapping up and dusk is beginning to fall over Fillmore as Fillmore & Western No. 14 simmers quietly in the yard. The fine product of Baldwin is being prepared for a r... (more)

The local station agent has a lot on his mind this evening as he looks down the tracks, ahead of the big Southern Pacific 4-10-2 that is taking on water prior to departing. In reality, its another... (more)

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Rock Island GP7 1293 and GP9 1318 at the west end of Silvis shop wait to go in for the GP rebuild program.

This trio of immaculate General Electric E60’s has the morning, loaded, train well in hand as they climb a short, steep grade that takes them out of eastern Utah’s Coyote Basin. Today’s trai... (more)

The Pacific Locomotive Association. Here, the crews from the Pacific Locomotive Association (dba, the Niles Canyon Railway) pose with the two big articulated locos that performed this day f... (more)

TDCX 202 leads the final cut of inbound empty hoppers into the Delong Company elevator.

Moon over Sunol. A full moon rises over the the 1884-vintage Southern Pacific Depot in Sunol, CA, as Clover Valley Lumber Co. saddle-tanker #4 sits hot and ready for her next assignment. ... (more)

Babysitting the beast. The shadowy figure of Clover Valley Lumber Co. #4's engineer wades through a bath of steam from the open cylinder cocks, as he oils around his locomotive in anticipat... (more)

An inbound Metra train passes under the signals at Tower B-12.

Remarks: After hiking through a small field on an unusually warm November afternoon...A couple of friends and I stand on the outskirts of GI: A locomotive storage facility just a few miles from th... (more)

2 of IHBs SD20s rest next to IHBs yard office in Blue Island. These vintage SD20s have now been shipped off and are out of service.

The hogger on NSW 76 is looking back for a signal from the switch crew. This engine was formerly Grand Trunk Western 8376 which NSW acquired as scrap in the 1959-60 timeframe. When the engine was ... (more)