VAUGHN NM Sept 3 1983 — Santa Fe C30-7 8165 passes a signal with a TOFC train. GE built the unit (s/n 44079) in December 1982 with black on white number boards, a roof-mounted air conditioning u... (more)
FRVR 4508 approaches the yard in Fond Du Lac, WI in January of 1993. Overshadowed by its' more glamorous neighbor, the Wisconsin Central, the FRVR was a favorite of mine and other C&NW fans.
High above the Shasta Valley, the northbound Coast Starlight crosses Dry Canyon in summer 1994. An Amtrak engineer once told me that if the signals were all green and the train was making track sp... (more)
In 1987-1988, Southern Pacific closed the Modoc Line to through traffic. If the Modoc had been open, this EURGM would have been closing in on Alturas. Instead, the train is crossing Dry Canyon Via... (more)
The C&O 4008 leads the Georgia Washington at Lee Hall, eighteen miles out of Newport News. We are now following the C&O on its westerly course paralleling the James River to Richmond, VA on Se... (more)