SP transfer power sits next to BN units borrowed for RCE testing at SP's West Colton engine facility

The Cambria and Indiana's daily train is preparing to leave Colver with representatives of every model on the roster, an MP15, three SW1500's and three SW9's. Also resident on the C&I, but nowhere... (more)

The Cambria and Indiana Railroad painted two peices of rolling stock to commemorate the nation's bicentennial - an SW9 and a caboose. Here caboose 56 stands behind the company's offices in Colver,... (more)

Here is UP's experiment with a coal turbine. They turned a PA into a control unit and an ex GN W1 electric into a coal fired turbine. If I remember right the unit ran only in the summer of 1962. H... (more)

RI transfer job making pickup Pullman Junction south side of Chicago

A quartet of TH&B GP7s idle under the old coaling tower along side CP SW 1200RS switchers at Hamilton, ON on May 24, 1981.

GMO 902, an SD40 joins Paducah Geep IC 7978, ICG 9549, a GP38, and IC GP40 3030 at Markham Yard on a stormy Chicago summer afternoon in 1979.

CP 7109, an MLW (Alco) S4 switcher sticks its nose out of the Vancouver roundhouse while passenger GP9 no. 8516 looks on. This facility served city switchers as well as passenger power for CP's Ca... (more)

A quintet of CP Rail SD40-2 helpers return downgrade to Donald and their helper station after lifting a westbound grain train over Rogers Pass through the Connaught Tunnel. They are shown here on ... (more)

Union Pacific's LUC53 local pulls a brand new 75-ton Grove RT875 Rough Terrain Crane through Salt Lake City on August 23, 1993. It features a 4-section boom with a maximum length of 125 feet, a te... (more)

SP 6800 one of four MK rebuilds of U25B's also one of three units SP painted up in a BiCentennial paint scheme for the 1976 200th anniversary of our countrys independence sits waiting for go back ... (more)

A relatively new SD40-2 "snoot" unit is on one of the service tracks at UP's East Los Angeles yard engine facility

Santa Fe Barstow shops

A fairly new SD45-2 was waiting assignment at Santa Fe's old Redondo Jct roundhouse

In '79 during a traffic surge resulting in a power shortage Santa Fe leased perhaps it's first ever power bringing foreign power to the west coast in the form of units from NW Chessie System and ... (more)