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New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (New Haven) Alco RS-3 diesel switcher locomotive, specifically numbered 551, t...
09/02/2026

New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (New Haven) Alco RS-3 diesel switcher locomotive, specifically numbered 551, that has derailed off the tracks.

A real railsplitter.

All Blue: 3 members of the "blue fleet" test on the GE test track in September 2017. GE was heavily invested in the Tier...
09/02/2026

All Blue: 3 members of the "blue fleet" test on the GE test track in September 2017. GE was heavily invested in the Tier 4 program and committed a whole fleet to it. They built a test bed locomotive, 2 demonstrators, and 25 blue fleet units to prove their design would not only work but be the best Tier 4 Locomotives out there. Known at first as EF44ACs, the production designation was ET44AC. The last one, 2044 was a pure production locomotive and carried the designation ET44C6. Many were sold off including to Canadian National and CPKC after testing and demonstrating was concluded.. Of the blue fleet 2023. and 2024 still call Wabtec Erie, home. GECX 2044 does as well but is now in Wabtec red. history railway green ecofriendly emissions

ATSF 88366, class Ga-166 built 1970, photo taken 1975, Ken Donnelly collection
08/31/2026

ATSF 88366, class Ga-166 built 1970, photo taken 1975, Ken Donnelly collection

How close have you came to losing it? Why? What happened?
08/31/2026

How close have you came to losing it? Why? What happened?

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe terminal in Clovis, New Mexico (1962).
08/30/2026

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe terminal in Clovis, New Mexico (1962).


The A-B-B-A set of Alco PA units accelerates the SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF out of town as two crewmen wave. Santa Fe's first G...
08/30/2026

The A-B-B-A set of Alco PA units accelerates the SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF out of town as two crewmen wave. Santa Fe's first GP35, 1300, leads a group of units sitting at the fuel rack.

📸🚂 Bob Krone 🚂📸


Santa Fe Railroad Station Albuquerque NMAll fast Santa Fe Streamliners stop at Albuquerque, New Mexico's largest city. L...
08/30/2026

Santa Fe Railroad Station Albuquerque NM

All fast Santa Fe Streamliners stop at Albuquerque, New Mexico's largest city. Located here also are the famous (Fred Harvey) Alvarado Hotel and well-known Indian building, where the finest Indian-made items may be secured by the many visitors of the great Southwest

📸🚂 William L Bird on flickr 🚂📸


Santa Fe passenger train making a station stop at Albuquerque, New Mexico in March 1943.(Jack Delano Photo)
08/30/2026

Santa Fe passenger train making a station stop at Albuquerque, New Mexico in March 1943.
(Jack Delano Photo)

One of Southern Pacific's magnificent cab forward articulated locomotives awaits its fate in a South San Francisco scrap...
08/30/2026

One of Southern Pacific's magnificent cab forward articulated locomotives awaits its fate in a South San Francisco scrap yard. The tender has already been cut down to its frame, and the locomotive will soon follow.


On October 26,1943 Western Pacific 2-6-6-2 #209 has found some trouble on the High Line south of Bieber at Archie. She...
08/30/2026

On October 26,1943 Western Pacific 2-6-6-2 #209 has found some trouble on the High Line south of Bieber at Archie. She was the lead locomotive with WP 2-6-6-2 #203 cut in 15 cars back when their train was hit by a string of Red River Lumber log flats that had gotten away at Halls Flat and crashed into #209 and her train. Both #209 and #203 were derailed in the collision. From the damage and the strewn lumber, she looks like she has also side-swiped flatcar loaded with lumber.
We can see why the mainline railroads did not like to share trackage with logging railroads.

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