MP2282 was one of seven MoPac GE's that were rebuilt by Jenks Shop with an EMD cab after sustaining accident damage. Here the unit leads a train on the Sedalia Sub over the Big Bend Blvd. overpass... (more)

On its way to the Bailey mine, a Detroit Edison train of empties works upgrade through Nineveh, Pennsylvania. Nineveh is just a few miles outside of Waynesburg on the Monongahela’s Manor branch.

In 1968, GE raised the horsepower on its models, this time to 3300hp. Like its B-B brother the U33B, the U33C is also characterized by large "wings" on the long hood. Penn Central numbered the U... (more)

LSI U30C's 3009 & 3000 smoke it up through Empire Junction hauling ancient ore cars that were loaded at the Tilden Mine.

In May, 1971, Union Pacific is using its new U50C’s in high-speed service out of East Los Angeles, where the 5003 is being serviced at the open-air engine facility. UP gambled big on the 5,000-h... (more)

The worker sent out to attend to engine 44’s needs between runs must feel more like he’s boarding a ship than climbing onto a locomotive. Just how big is General Electric’s massive U50? At o... (more)

Some of the Maine Central’s former Delaware & Hudson U23B’s got repainted into the Guilford scheme. Here former D&H 2307, freshly repainted, basks in some welcome but elusive November sun.

Three units – a pair of GE U50’s and an EMD DD35B – labor up Archer Hill, Union Pacific’s climb from Crow Creek east of Cheyenne, the day after Christmas, 1966. While not the ordeal nor th... (more)

Soon after Guilford Transportation gained control of the Delaware & Hudson, Maine Central, Boston & Maine, and Springfield Terminal, a lot of the motive power of those roads was reassigned. The fi... (more)

With storms surrounding the Eagle Mills, Michigan area, a small hole of full sun opened up for just a moment on a set of Lake Superior & Ishpeming U-boats working some non-ore traffic in the yard.... (more)

One of the two pairs of operating LS&I cascade green GE's start a load out of the Eagle Mills yard destined for the dock in Marquette.

UP eastbound near Odessa

There is a small but interesting train museum adjacent to the Pueblo Union Depot train station, including these two unique pieces. DOT 001 is a U30C that used to be used on the Department of Tran... (more)

After dropping off a loaded iron ore train at the connection with Southern Pacific at Ferrum on the western end of the Eagle Mountain RR the power and caboose head back toward Eagle Mountain.

Just days out of General Electric’s Erie works on June 28, 1964, and showroom fresh, Southern Pacific U50 8500 simmers under the El Paso sun, about to lend its considerable 5,000 hp to a westbo... (more)