Wylie yard job working a long cut of cars

A BNSF yard job stretches a cut of trailers past the Belen Harvey House Museum. Once part of an extensive network of hotels and restaurants throughout the Santa Fe, this museum is now owned by the... (more)

CN 9402 shoves a string of hoppers back into the CN Keenan yard while passing a pair of still active searchlight signals at N. Keenan. Or, CN 9402 and a string of hoppers anywhere across the CN ra... (more)

When near Proctor, MN the obligatory stop on the north end of the yard is a must do. DMIR 212 and IC 6264 handle evening switching chores for manifest freight at the west end of Proctor Yard. Pai... (more)

WAMX 3525, a rare GP30, and WAMX 3532 had the yard duties today for Boise Valley. Once they had finished and tied up for the day, they were left here to rests until the action resumes the next day... (more)

A pair of SD40Ns blow smoke while working the Green River yard as a westbound intermodal prepares to depart.

An NS GP60 still earns its keep switching cars at Simpson Yard in Jacksonville.

Built in June of 1980, WAMX EMD GP50 is still on the rails handling some yard tasks in Tuscaloosa, AL for the Alabama Southern Railway (ABS). The unit was originally built for the C&NW as their 50... (more)

Passing rows of stored boxcars, a former New Haven RS-3 renumbered and now working for Penn Central pulls a transfer cut from the hump into the westbound departure yard at Cedar Hill Yard in New H... (more)

Coupled up to the road power, 4450 was helping put an eastbound ready to leave Sparks

At first glance this looks like a New Haven RR scene, but the four-digit number on ex-NH SW1200 9190 indicates that in 1970 Penn Central is in charge at Maybrook, NY. The empty yard behind it symb... (more)

In pre-radio days railroads maintained private telephone networks with lineside phones at stations, junctions, and other key points, used by train crews to communicate with dispatchers and towers.... (more)

Former New Haven S1 0947 got the black dip paint job that transformed it into Penn Central 9418, but no lettering for its new owner. The anonymous Alco worked a switch job at Cedar Hill Yard in Ne... (more)

"Can I have my Hobart Tower well done, please?" The local transients of Los Angeles were happy to abided this order, unfortunately, as seen in blacked-interior and blown out windows of the ... (more)