OPE1 traction unit stands on the filling at the quarry of "Pavlovsky GOK". OPE1 is the first Soviet traction unit manufactured by Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant (USSR) between 1970 and 20... (more)

An ex Cotton Belt GP60 sits right outside the Redding Amtrak Station on a sunny winter morning. Its always nice to see something besides yellow along the UP Valley Subdivision.

You'd better give right of way to this guy under all circumstances!

Once a critical power supply to Metro Detroit, the end has come for the Detroit Edison Bunce Plant in Marysville, MI. Started in 1914, the coal fired giant was put online in 1922, and after severa... (more)

Two former BN units (BNSF 2897 is a GP39M and BNSF 1444 is a SD60M) head to the Denver Yard to shuffle freight cars.

Setting a string of center beams on the dock for storage in preparation for the mill and railroad closure. Yesterday the cars were brought down in a special move from the Dry Sort yard where the... (more)

An unnumbered Avtex (formerly American Viscose) GE 44-tonner stands in open space in Lewistown, PA. Why 44 tons? As the railroads argued that firemen's jobs in the new diesels were not necessary, ... (more)

There is a narrow window of oportunity for a shot like this. This scene embraces both history and the future (possibly). The future is Tacoma Rail's hill job, powered by former EMD SD70ACe-P4s 1... (more)

Back in 1990, a 750mm gauge 0-8-0, PX48 class, heads a very short freight near Gniezno.The load consists of a single standard gauge wagon, between the loco and caboose.

Rows of brand new Toyota Tacoma pickup trucks assembled at the automaker's Baja California, Mexico plant patiently wait their turn to be loaded onto empty auto racks. Since the plant has no direc... (more)

UP’s subsidiary Spokane International’s Alco RS-1 with the funky additional headlight was assigned to yard duties at Topeka, Kansas and was shut down on its Sunday rest day behind the station,... (more)

New VLocity set VL57 manoeuvres around the passenger yard at Southern Cross Station.

3 DF4s and a DFH3 on shed at Changchun in 2002.

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With pressure from legislators to produce cleaner energy, coal has started to see its end in some places, one of which: Lansing, MI. A victim of this is the Otto E. Eckert Station. Operated by the... (more)