New C&NW C40-8 8524 leads a loaded coal train out of the Powder River Basin on August 28, 1989.

One of the Mission Mountain's newest repaints, WAMX 3942 rests outside of the railroad's Columbia Falls yard office on a sunny fall morning. 3942 was painted to honor the Columbia Falls Wildcats, ... (more)

Assigned to work the Oakland Yard in August, 1969, Alco S-2 557 is now wearing an all orange paint scheme applied to many switchers and F-units in the late 60s. Of course, everything on a railr... (more)

Rio Tinto 9133 pauses briefly near the end of track off of Justin Cemetery Rd before reversing back to the GE plant. Already there are 2 of these tarped and prepped for shipment.

NS GP38-2 5135 stood for a portrait before the white sill stripe era at East Point, Georgia. (Slide Scan)

Santa Fe GE C44-9W 680.

If only the Rock Island would've had GP30s.... Having completed it's nighttime switching, AOK GP30 2402 along with companion 2411 and B40-8W 578 on an adjacent track are shut down for the day o... (more)

EJE SW1001 446 was saved from the scrapper in Illinois and is now used to train new conductors at CN's "Claude Mongeau Training Facility" in Winnipeg's east end.

Fresh from the shops with new paint and lettering, ready for leasing.

The Metra Rock Island heritage unit sits at LaSalle Street Station on protect duty (and display) for the NKP 765 trips.

This weary-looking Alco high hood switcher, built in 1939, was one of Penn Central's oldest diesels, edged out only be a few ex-NYC SW1s. Former New Haven HH-660 0924 got a new number and a patche... (more)

A third Roy Hill unit was just released from GE-FW today, shown here at Harmonson Rd. in Justin, TX, on it's first ever run and first validation run for the day.

On the first validation run of the day, Roy Hill Australia 1022 pauses momentarily 1000 feet shy of the north end-of-track in Justin, TX, before reversing back to the south end of the GE-FW test t... (more)

Having completed all validation and test runs, Ferromex 4842 and another Ferromex unit await pickup outside the GE Transportation Systems assembly plant in North Fort Worth, TX.