My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

Wisconsin Central train 49 pounds over the Wisconsin & Southern crossing at Slinger, Wisconsin, on April 14, 1997. A reminder of the past is the structure on the right that the westbound WC train ... (more)

Santa Fe EMD GP30 No. 2746 leads AT&SF train 301 into Houlihan’s Curve as it descends Edelstein Hill west of Chillicothe, Illinois, at 3:23 p.m. on May 11, 1991.

ATSF 2351 leads a manifest freight over the Vermilion River bridge at Streator, IL on its way west from Chicago to Galesburg and points west.

ATSF 128 makes good time through Coal City, IL on its race from Kansas City to Chicago. The power is an A-B-A set in Super Fleet red & silver, among the most impressive sights in railroading in 19... (more)

BN 986 rests at Harrison St. next to the roundhouse in Minneapolis. The former GN NW5 along with NW2s and Alco S-2 switchers were among the oldest power inherited by BN when the merger occurred in... (more)

Imagine my surprise when during a furtive little drive and a "hardy hi you silver" found this beast sitting, waiting for its run. Got him on the road and the sun was great, but on the wrong side... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe FP45 5992 (ex-5942, nee-102), teamed with FP45s 5991 and 5998, is on the point of a 14-car Analysts' Special climbing Cajon Pass as the train heads from San Diego to Bak... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD GP40 No. 3012 leads an eastbound BN military extra through Buda, Illinois, on the railroad’s Galesburg to Aurora main line on May 21, 1989.

Milwaukee Road EMD SD40-2 No. 186 sits alongside the enginehouse at the railroad’s locomotive facility at Bensenville, Illinois, on February 7, 1987.

Amtrak’s City of New Orleans passes the caboose of a southbound Illinois Central train north of Peotone, Illinois, at 8:28 a.m. on May 9, 1992.

UP 8037 is set up elephant style with CNW 6802 & 6851, all SD40-2s, waiting to head a train east from Argo to North Platte, NE. CNW 6802 was the 2nd SD40-2 acquired by CNW as part of a 15 unit ord... (more)

Yes, this is Bliss just outside the fence at the Fort. I hope you've been to Bliss somewhere else 'cause this one ain't so much. WB mixed freight.

BNSF 9297 wears BNSF's initial experimental "Heritage" orange and green paint scheme. It featured a solid 3" red pinstripe that separated the orange and Brunswick green along the right carbody... (more)

OKLAHOMA CITY Dec 18 1983 — Unpatched Oklahoma Kansas Texas (Conrail) GP38-2 8236 is tied down at Harter Yard. EMD built the unit in September 1978. In this photo the 8236 is on lease to the OKT... (more)