Surrounding Union Pacific’s large shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, is an array of storage buildings and outside storage space devoted to parts supply. A vast variety of parts and materials, new, reconditioned and used, are needed to be available for use in rebuilding the railroad’s locomotive fleet. In a rack near the paint shop is a supply of nose doors and cab sides.
Tags: Union Pacific UP locomotive shop shop Downing B. Jenks Shop Jenks Shop train railroad North Little Rock Arkansas AR nose doors SD70M SD70M parts cab side
© All Rights Reserved
After finishing up a run on August 5, 1996, Engineer Leon “Spike” Moynier walks over the yard tracks to the Helper depot where he’ll tie up for the day.
Tags: railroader engineer crewman Rio Grande DRGW Denver and Rio Grande Western logo insignia Rio Grande logo EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motor locomotive Helper Utah train railroad UT
© All Rights Reserved
Parts of some Milwaukee Road woodchip cars, rebuilt from old rib-sided boxcars, still lives on today—donating their car sides long ago for an unique retaining wall built alongside the St. Maries River Railroad yard at St. Maries, Idaho, as seen on September 27, 2021. At the eastern end of the wall, the last car side and its supporting timbers are giving way to gravity and time. Reusing retired cars built in the railroad’s own shop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Road sure lived up to its slogan of “America’s Resourceful Railroad.” The town of St. Maries was a crew change point on the non-electrified “gap” on Milwaukee Road’s Pacific Extension main line, between the electrified districts of Harlowton to Avery and Othello to Tacoma.
Tags: St. Maries River Railroad STMA St. Maries Idaho retaining wall Milwaukee Road old boxcars woodchip cars retired freight car yard ID logo
© All Rights Reserved
The current DMVW logo on the side of SD40-3 No. 6911 on a train at the “Lake” between Coleharbor and Garrison, North Dakota, on August 31, 2018.
Tags: Dakota Missouri Valley Western DMVW North Dakota ND train railroad locomotive logo EMD SD40-3 6911 Max turn wayfreight Lake
© All Rights Reserved
The coupler of Montana Rail Link caboose No. 1004 on one of the many curves on the scenic 10-mile Sixth Subdivision, also known as the Harrison Branch. Mountain railroading at its best!
Tags: MRL Montana Rail Link caboose caboose No. 1004 Harrison Branch Sixth Subdivision coupler blur trainMontana railroad MT
© All Rights Reserved