On October 26, 1968 the annual fall sugar “campaign” is under way in Northern Colorado. Branch lines swarm with extras, light engine movements and caboose hops. Here at Dent, junction of the D... (more)

Westbound "Ford Fast" starting it's descent of Tennessee Pass at sight of old Mitchell siding near the summit

SD's on parade. DMIR 170, a Phase IV SD9 leads a row of six SDs enjoying some summer sun at Keenan, MN. All have been repainted in the Arrowhead scheme, and the 170 now features a GP20 style fan s... (more)

B&O GP30 no. 6919 and a GP38 are parked for servicing on a gray Washington's birthday in Willard, Ohio. Approximately a decade into the Chessie System consolidation it was still common to see vint... (more)

Rock Island 4201 and 4206 idle at their Inver Grove, MN diesel facilities south of St. Paul in July 1973. The two units show their Rio Grande heritage, former DRGW 5102 and 5110 respectively. The ... (more)

A GP9 built 1955 with EMD# 20696 and became UP 300, then Iowa Interstate 300, and finally sold to the Feather River Rail Society (Portola) in December 1995.

BRC transfer job Pullman Jct south side of Chicago

IC to BRC transfer Pullman Jct south side of Chicago

N&W GP9 795 switches at Lambert's Point in 1980. This is a very late date to see the original N&W herald.

CN 5607, a GP38-2W snakes west across the Thompson River bridge at Lytton, BC with a vintage grain box extra in August 1975. The consist includes a GP9 and a second GP38-2W. Some of the box cars c... (more)

A Union Pacific Directors' Special glides along Puget Sound on a partly cloudy spring morning at Steilacoom, WA. UP has trackage rights here on BN's former NP mainline between Tacoma and Portland.... (more)

Ban-Lon slacks were the order of the day for men in the mid-70s, as the operator returns from hooping up the flimsies to CR 6547 East. Traffic was heavy that afternoon, with the "American Fr... (more)

Southbound IC train running wrong main Chatawa, MS

Amtrak’s northbound Crescent glides through Elizabeth, NJ on June 13, 1981. The train is being pulled by a locomotive that a friend of mine once dubbed a "Wonder loaf", making it fitti... (more)

WP GP40's were reassigned to Texas after the UP-MP-WP merger, having been bumped by CCS equipped UP six axle power. Here the MF (Memphis-Ft.Worth) train is approaching Texarkana with a slug of Eas... (more)