Union Pacific is throwing everything it has at Sherman Hill today, March 19 1966. And it has a lot. Turbines, big DD35As and strings of GP30s and ‘35s have all tackled the grade east out of Lara... (more)
Perhaps with the ugly-duckling on the point, Santa Fe’s Super Chief-El Capitan Train 17 climbs the Colorado side of Raton Pass near Morley on Aug. 1, 1970. GE 7902 U28CG; EMD 5944 FP45; EMD 593... (more)
Santa Fe’s Super Chief/El Capitan Train 17 descends the New Mexico side of Raton Pass at Keota with four motors — 7902, 5944, 5937, 5936. Note the angle which the signal is aimed (for early v... (more)
A Western Pacific U23B has been serviced and awaits a call at Rio Grande's Roper Yard on July 21, 1980. The 2260 was built new for the WP in June 1972 and later rebuilt as a B23-S7 'Super 7' by GE... (more)
A westbound RI freight passes under the 7th Street viaduct in downtown Des Moines. Doing the honors, and all decked out in the newer blue and white color scheme, are slug-set 298-284-297. It is ... (more)
Detroit Edison, DE U23C 019-002-005, leads an empty coal train a W.Brownsville, PA. 10/29/1983
One locomotive, two numbers. Wearing its two different numbers EL 3358 and NJT 4158. U34CH is going through a rebuilding process at the ex-CNJ shops at E-Port, NJ 01/27/1979
Just days off the erecting floor at GE’sErie, Pennsylvania, plant, spotless U25B 230 with two older sisters leads a freight up the approach to the Harry S Truman Bridge at Birmingham Missouri. O... (more)
Waiting for a call on a freight train east, three Rock Island locomotives rest at Rio Grande’s North Yard in Denver, Colorado, in August 1979. Motley lettering on some swapped doors decorating t... (more)
L784 rolling through the town of Collins
From my slide collection. Photo by Mark Clark
GC U23B #3957 leads train L784 past the SAL depot built in 1930. The depot new serves at a community center.
GC U23B #3957 leads intermodal train L784 towards Vidalia for interchange with the HOG.
Southern History: An ex Southern Railway U23B passes a Southern caboose in downtown Pembroke. I wonder if these two have met at some point in their former lives on the Southern.