After changing crews in the yard office, the NPYR train departs Milford for Las Vegas while the YRPC waits its turn to depart for Salt Lake City.

C&NW low-nose SD9 #6604, built with a high-nose as #1704, leads RS11 #4251 and a GP30 as it approaches Waseca, MN.

My father and I were thwarted in our attempt to get TP&W Alcos on this day. But we did see this train with TP&W GP35s bracketing a Santa Fe U23B and F7B.

The CR 4430 West has a single E44 running long-hood forward at the head end of an empty hopper train. The first car is marked AEPX, for "American Electric Power Service Corporation." The... (more)

The 4913 and 4912 have just doubleheaded the westbound Broadway Limited into town and have been moved to the "motor track" to await tomorrow's run back to New York. Both locomotives wer... (more)

A Roger Puta photograph.

SP 4333 and six more SD9s get a free wash in the November rain at Brooklyn Yard on Portland, Oregon's southeast side. The venerable SDs still have some good years ahead of them at this point, and ... (more)

Trackwork has held up this single-G and its "TrucTrain," but the crew has gotten clearance from the operator at Block Station E-Town and is re-boarding to head east. Note the old stone f... (more)

Sun and cloud play tag with Rock Island 1298 and 360 as they head a short freight north on the Twin Cities line. Overnight rain has soaked fields and filled low-lying areas on this June 29, 1969, ... (more)

NW RS11 no. 2570 is stored at Brewster, OH in 1981. These were tough times in the rust belt, Conrail was five years old, and traffic was down. This is former Nickelplate 570 and would become a cas... (more)

ICG 5050 and IC 5058 are paired up at Markham Yard engine facilities in their late 60s "modern" IC dreamsicle color scheme. Rare units on the IC/ICG, this color scheme was one of several... (more)

The Norfolk and Western acquired the bankrupt Atlantic and Danville in 1962 and renamed it Norfolk, Franklin and Danville. For a long time the NFD operated with two former Atlantic and Danville R... (more)

An eastbound led by three Alco C628s pauses at the west end telephone shanty before entering Coxton Yard.

I’ve been a fan of notched-nosed Alcos since seeing my first Lehigh Valley RS11’s, and seeing the RS11’s, RSD12’s, and T6’s that were regulars on the PC’s Bel-Del division. The T6 was ... (more)

BN 5342 and two C30-7s are ready to head east from Alliance, NE towards Grand Island and Lincoln. If lucky they will get underway before the background storm hits town. this storm was part of a sy... (more)