MILW Little Joe E-72 relaxes under the sanding tower at the Avery, Idaho roundhouse, Aug. 6, 1973.

Not only is that a windshield glare but it is temporary cover over a shattered windshield on Little Joe E-71 East at Soudan, Montana on Aug. 9, 1973. The train just left Alberton and it is 105 mi... (more)

No more room at the inn — Santa Fe’s Argentine Diesel Shop at Kansas City when there was a 1-day, 24-hour strike on that now infamous date — 9-11, the year 1965.

Big blue hustles freight along. Those Leslie RS3L horns got to be SO boring, but now I'd love to see and hear a train with solid CR power.

Clinchfield power sits by the diesel shop in Dante, VA. 4607 was a former Seaboard Coast Line GP7 that was rebuilt in the SCL Uceta shops as part of the rebuild program similar to the program that... (more)

A westbound (northbound) freight enters San Yard in Owosso, MI. The name San Yard was given due to the literal translation of the word "San", meaning without. That was a result of the fa... (more)

A westbound PC freight was making it's way across Ohio near Selkirk

I'm not sure of the story behind this unit, I vaguely remember hearing that it was lettered up as a joke as it is a former Louisville & Nashville unit, but any insight would be appreciated. 35mm s... (more)

OK, it isn't Thurmond, WV, but Calera was a railroad town, with businesses (including a hotel and a drug store) that fronted on the railroad. That's Southern in the foreground, with L&N on the ot... (more)

Operator Steve Hicks gets ready to hand up orders to the crew of L&N 790, which is swinging across the plant at Amqui to head for Evansville.

It is October 1981, in less than 6 months, the ferries would stop traversing Lake Michigan, and the end of this line would be set, but, prior to this, 4 Ann Arbor units roll through the beautiful ... (more)

Former Monongahela unit headed west along the Ohio River

A unit coal train, led by SBD 8338, a former Clinchfield SD40, rolls through the heart of Downtown Atlanta, GA. 35mm slide from my collection, photo by Bill Folsom.

Western Pacific's 'Golden Gate Merchandise' arrives at Rio Grande's Roper Yard in South Salt Lake. April 30, 1976