CNW class U30C no. 930 revs up for a move into a freight consist for a train heading west out of Altoona on a crisp January day in 1978. CNW had 7 big U boats and was not fond of them. One was wre... (more)

CNW 1725, a GP9 still in its delivered color scheme idles with a pair of rebuilt SD9s at St. Paul's Western Avenue Yard. Some of CNW's GP9 were delivered with roof top air tanks to permit larger f... (more)

A CNW way freight heads north from Rice Lake, WI towards Spooner powered by GP15-1 4404. The unit may be new, but the 40 ft. boxcars still give a vintage feel to the train. This location is near T... (more)

Switch power TPW yard East Peoria

A new Western Pacific GP40-2 awaits an assignment at UP North Yard in Salt Lake City on July 25, 1980.

Penn Central F7A #1749, F3B #3466, F7A #1758 and F7A #1804 are all former New York Central units.

CNW 6812 leads train 415 as it waits in Rodell siding east of Fall Creek, Wis. for the caboose of train 406 to roll by. The trains were somewhat delayed by cold weather, and MOW crews had to come ... (more)

CNW 1237, a 1945 Baldwin VO-660 rebuilt by EMD in 1958 and classified as a VO-660M, tends to switching chores in Altoona, Wis. on a cool January afternoon. The unit has been repainted in the early... (more)

PC power Potomac yard

A southbound coal train is waiting for a meet alongside a great displace of Kentucky strata, in which seams of coal appear quite often.

Milwaukee SD40-2s 176 and 194 look bright and fresh as they slam a freight over the diamonds at CNW's Deval tower at Des Plaines, Illinois. The train is playing tag with threatening weather as it ... (more)

Former B&O series was way outnumbered in the Chessie System by GPs, though I have never figured out why.

Enough to make a stealth fan smile, a study in blue and gray.

The Shannopin mine railroad: A trip to photograph the Monongahela Railway yielded a day with the usually-busy Waynesburg Southern side of the MGA dead due to scheduled track work. The only activi... (more)

Moments before sundown, a 78 car coil steel train approaches downtown Flagstaff on Sept. 19, 1994. The old Route 66 bridge above Santa Fe's Seligman Subdivision is in the background.