An eastbound Southern Pacific fright heads north, splitting the semaphore signals, on the Portland Division. (On the SP, trains heading toward San Francisco are westbound, and those heading away ... (more)

The CN ran a couple limestone trains out of Proctor around lunchtime this day. One was bound for Fairlane and one was bound for Minorca. These trains ended up running both directions back to back!... (more)

Pulling off the CN Rainy sub at Minorca Jct. and continue the slow slog up the grade with limestone loads for delivery to the Minorca taconite plant on this early summer morning.

Leaving the U.S. Steel Minntac property behind with loads of taconite pellets with the next stop scheduled for the yard at Proctor, MN.

TP&W's intermodal train from Galesburg approaches it's destination of the East Peoria yard behind 2 SD45T-2's.

PALMER LAKE CO — Rio Grande SD40T-2 5398 leads a coal train in this undated photo. The slide is completely unlabeled and the Kodalux slide mount doesn't contain any indication of month-year of d... (more)

Last hurrah for the Rio Grande, and it's tunnel motors. I was fortunately enough to get a last chance, of catch four Rio Grande tunnel motors working together on the dirt train in 2002.

Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motor No. 5390 leads the eastbound Union Pacific LJP45 dirt train through the short canyon between Wash and Wellington (sometimes referred to as Wellington Canyon), U... (more)

The old SP Colton Yard etc. was down by the grain mill in the distance. To handle eastbound trains over Beaumont Hill they kept a helper pocket just east of the old yard. Here a helper set await... (more)

It's 2003 but you would never know it. The employees in Helper, Utah keep the Rio Grande alive as long as they could. D&RGW 5349, 5354, and 5390. near the end of the Sunnyside Branch with a loaded... (more)

A westbound train on the Modoc Line approaches the US 395 grade crossing at Likely, California in summer 1990. Today, the grade from here south to Wendel is a hiking trail.

A former Southern Pacific SD45 tunnel motor leads a Buffalo & Pittsburgh coal train as it crosses the South Buffalo Railroad's bridge to head towards the port in Buffalo, New York. This bridge cro... (more)

Moving limestone from Proctor up the CN Missabe Sub heading to deliver at Minntac.

B&LE tunnel motor 906 leads the Two Harbors MRF South through Iron Junction.

Repainted DMIR tunnel motor leads ore loads South into the yard in Proctor.