The Peoria Rocket pauses at the depot in Bureau. Bureau is the junction of the Peoria Branch with the mainline to Silvis.

The "famous" ABBBA set of GP9's and F7B's take their turn for servicing at the Silvis Shops.

This final shot of the series shows Mike's solution to finding the right location to shoot from. Amtrak personnel were kind enough to move an F40PH into position to give Mike the elevation needed ... (more)

Alco RS2 rebuilt with a new prime mover from EMD and reclassified as an RS2m by the Rock Island.

Rock Island E8A 661 sits near the throat of LaSalle Street Station with bilevels commuter cars that will eventually go to Joliet.

B&O GP38 2107 pulls a cut of coal cars at Westport. This was the last B&O blue locomotive to operate on CSX. Sadly, it was desecrated with a yellow nose in 1996. The Spring Garden Drawbridge, lea... (more)

Breakfast time, St. Johnsbury & Lamoille County's "Saint J" turn has eased out of the small yard and crossed the CP main, to begin the return trip to Morrisville, VT. August 1972 is the... (more)

Snow-covered Rocky Mountains of Glacier National Park recede in the rear dome windows of private car “Sierra Hotel” as Amtrak No. 8, the eastbound Empire Builder, cruises east of Browning, Mon... (more)

CNW 923, a former Chicago Great Western SD40 rumbles east along the station platform in Eau Claire, WI with what is most likely train 472. At the time, trains 471 and 472 operated between East Min... (more)

A pair of former Great Northern SD9s work the waterfront in Superior as the idled laker J. L. Mauthe rests in the distance. The Mauthe would be converted into the barge Pathfinder not long after t... (more)

SCL 874, its ACL heritage showing, has become an issue for a southbound crew headed from Columbia to Savannah on the former SAL main, and so is being shoved into a wood yard spur near Swansea. Th... (more)

The Broadway Limited rolls past AR Tower in Gallitzin, PA on the morning of May 13th,1995.