This was called a yard cleaner.... in BN's former Rice Yard, Denver. Cough, cough, wheeze; the operator even stands outside. The area is now Elitchs amusement park.

The boy at right probably still remembers how the ATSF unloads a ballast tamper from a flat car if no crane is available. With the work train int he background dumping ballast, the tamper has its... (more)

On April 26, 1972, GP35 3313 shoves Jordan spreader 199232 along the eastward main track between Griffith and Harris, Arizona, on the Kingman Subdivision, later Seligman Sub. Nothing manicures the... (more)

Sperry Rail Service car 137 performs rail defect testing along UP's remote Sunnyside Subdivision in eastern Utah. The car was built by St. Louis Car for the Soo Line in 1925. Sperry acquired it an... (more)

In an attempt to open its line from winter snows, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic operated a triple-header rotary snow plow train on May 3, 1997. Three mikados are shoving Rotary OY as they near the deep... (more)

Sandy's Aftermath: Raritan Central has the misfortune of being located adjacent to the Raritan River and Raritan Bay. The storm surge from Hurricane Sandy deposited a large amount of debri... (more)

One of Metro North's inspection trains after Hurricane Sandy. Train crews looked for trees or any obstructions on the tracks, stopped when one was spotted and on board track workers armed with cha... (more)

This photo encapsulates how temporary loading tracks are laid in the bog: First, the mound of dried peat at left is notched by a bulldozer to create a (somewhat) level path that acts as roadbed. ... (more)

The Conrail heritage unit #8098 leads NS 924 Southbound on the NS Brooklyn District through Mount Olive, Illinois on 10/20/2012 headed for Coffeen Ameren Power plant with a MoW train.

Three contract workers from a mobile wash service make quick work of a dirty Montana Rail Link SD70ACe. Montana Rail Link would use these contractors often to clean the soot and dirt that the help... (more)

Loram crew member watches the grinding as railgrinder grinds Norfolk Southern mainline

Amtrak No. 5, the California Zephyr, gets serviced during the station stop at Denver, Colorado, on October 14, 2012. This included getting the front windows washed on P42DC No. 134. Denver Union S... (more)

20302 stands at Gilberdyke after arriving with a rail head treatment train (RHTT) from York. 20308 can be seen on the rear of the train which will lead the train from here to Bradford Interchange

During Amtrak No. 5’s station stop at the temporary depot across from Coors Field in Denver, Colorado, lead locomotive No. 134 needed to have a shattered mirror replaced. You have to be a somewh... (more)

A contract worker gives a Montana Rail Link SD70ACe a bath in Helena, Montana. The contractors were used frequently to high-pressure wash, and scrub down MRL's helper locomotives stationed in Hele... (more)