Southern Pacific helper set of rebuilt SD45T-2 #6868 and rebuilt SD45 #7515 head downgrade light at the RR West end of Pryor after helping a Westbound up to Cascade Summit on SP's Cascade Line …

I remember 50 years ago today like it was last week. I knew the coming of Conrail was going to bring big changes, and neither I nor anyone else could really foresee the extent or impact of those changes …

January 21 was the first time I got out for an extended day of chasing trains this year. The weather forecast promised some sun, although it took a while for that to develop. After getting the empty …

I was digging into the old files from Alaska days and came across a batch that were totally untagged from April 2009 when I was General Foreman of the Anchorage Locomotive Shop facility. I don't …

Southern Pacific's first EMD six axle locomotive built in 1952 as a demo unit. Here is the elder statesman of the SP Roster working in Roseville yard in 1995 still earning it's keep. Rosevillewas a …

If a locomotive is being used a company that don't own it and it gets in a wreck, what happen to the locomotive and does that company using it have to pay for it. For example: CSX is using a UP …

I remember first seeing these distinctive creatures back in 1979. It was during one of the early “railfan archaeological expeditions” Bill Gibson graciously allowed me to take into his wonderful slide …

Also British warship of the same name with heavier armor than predecessor ships, equipped with single caliber main armament, no intermediate battery and multiple smaller armament. Precursor to the …

Does anyone have drawings of the San Luis Obispo train station? I would like to make an N scale model of it for our club N scale layout. Any help or idea where I can find the measurements without doing it …

Huntington, Indiana. March 12, 1976. The Erie Lackawanna decided at the last minute to throw in the towel and join the Conrail merger of the other northeast carriers. The guy next to the engines yelled …