Back in the early 1970s Missouri Pacific acquired 35 3000-hp U30C’s for service in the southern Illinois coal fields and worked them hard, giving them little attention and less maintenance. On ... (more)

Galloping home early in the afternoon at Rocky siding, Rio Grande number 10, the Craig-Denver Yampa Valley, is 35 minutes from a 3:20 arrival at Union Station. Three coaches and a baggage car behi... (more)

Westbound SP manifest descending the Tehachapis through Woodford.

Looking rather old forty years ago.

I shot the Washington Terminal RS-1 switching the Union Station while I waited for a train to Roanoke.

Who's that 6 year-old railfan? That's me armed with the Instamatic camera and Kodachrome film (yes, they made Kodachrome for Instamatics). By 1976, I would move up to a single-lens reflex. My f... (more)

The coolest shortline there never was (this version, at least-- see comment below). I wish I had better photo skills (and the will to photograph trains somewhere outside of Bennett Yard and SY To... (more)

Power for CP Rail's Canadian is being swithced at their Vancouver coach yard and city roundhouse just southeast of downtown. Access to this yard is through a horseshoe tunnel under the city from t... (more)

One of twenty-two "humpbacked" Dash 8-39Cs owned by Conrail is westbound by the defunct Bethlehem Steel facility in the background. This view was shot from the 2nd floor office of the o... (more)

ICG SW14s 1409 and 1408 are paired up on a caboose hop at Markham Yard, Homewood, IL on June 30, 1979. These units had uniquely rebuilt cabs, similar to a GP35 changing their look quite a bit from... (more)

A Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific transfer run heads upgrade from downtown Duluth to its west Duluth yard located on the hill side below Missabe's Proctor Hill climb. GP38-2s 5850 and 5853 were acquire... (more)

Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range no. 162 lead a trio of SDs and an empty ore train around a curve northwest of Munger, Minnesota en route to the Iron Range. The high side modifications indicate these ... (more)

Former Burlington Route GP35, BN 2525, and X-GN SD7, BN 6010, along with an X-GN Geep shine under a street light near the turntable at Belknap St. roundhouse in Superior, WI on a warm summer eveni... (more)

"Our Greatest Asset Is People," as noted at the bottom of the unique old Chessie Shops sign in Cumberland.

A pair of E33's have just entered the Corridor at Lane Tower and are now passing the platforms at North Elizabeth, NJ. Date is approximate.