This CR freight is running on former CNJ trackage in the Lehigh River valley just south of the Lehigh Gap. The lead loco, CR3129, was later acquired by the DRGW, and the New Jersey Zinc plant her... (more)

In the seventies and eighties SP ran "haulers" from Taylor yard in Los Angeles and Colton yard in West Colton to various outlying points and return with power being virtually anything SP... (more)

A Rock Island train was "rocking" west through Pullman Jct, even though speed was ten or less the brakeman riding the nose was well braced for the rocking motion.

Milwaukee Road's Rail Detector cars layover in the small yard in front of the Freight House in downtown Davenport, IA.

The headman climbs onboard the northbound Milwaukee Road 2027 after lining the switch at Ebner Junction. The MILW ran on the BN from Ebner to Savanna. The BN has laid out ties to extend their ow... (more)

An eastbound Milwaukee Road patrol diverges onto the Dri-Line mainline at West Davenport This is where the Milwaukee Road/Dri-Line joined Rock Island's Golden State mainline. On the left is Rock... (more)

Brand-new 1977 model-year automobiles head to showroom floors, rounding the Horseshoe Curve on an ex-PRR tri-level auto-rack.

A below-the-rails view of the eastbound 4806 at the crossing to the boat access ramp at the foot of Penn Street. Train speed here was about 30-35 mph, with Port Interlocking about 1 mile to the e... (more)

A pair of Yankeetown Docks BiCentennial painted units were at the engine facility in Yankeetown

Prior to the formation of Conrail, intermodal traffic on the Allentown area was predominated by the Lehigh Valley’s Apollo and Mercury trains between Oak Island and Buffalo, which bypassed Allen... (more)

GN 562 in Big Sky Blue handle home built caboose X-1 and a classic GN caboose along with a string of ore jennies at Allouez Yard 6 months after the BN merger. The jennies include a somewhat rare j... (more)

DMIR 212, an SD38-2 does dock switcher duties while SD38ACs 203 and 207 wait to grab their trainload of empty ore jennies for the trip back up to Proctor Yard. The train on the dock had been broug... (more)

Westbound local departing Fostoria

Local switch power and caboose Fremont

Early AEM-7 era action- the 906 is on No. 2 Track, as seen from the northbound station platform. No. 906 was built by EMD in August, 1980 and retired in April, 2015. For another shot on this web... (more)