The CHV switch crew prepares to couple a Southern boxcar to their SW1500. This is all gone now, as are virtually all of parent company West Point-Pepperell's textile plants in the Chattahoochee R... (more)

Once again an SCL locomotive fronts Amtrak's Floridian. This time, though, it is not due to the failure of one of the antique inherited E-units. Instead, SCL 1823 was added after the lead unit wa... (more)

A Conrail crew prepares to maneuver a four-month-old GP15-1 out to the yard at Elizabethport, New Jersey. The adjacent building is the former Jersey Central Elizabethport Shops.

Wellsboro was the crossing of the B&O, C&O, and GTW, and the interlocking included a manned single-story building. The "tower" operator is seen interacting with the crew of a passing B&... (more)

BN 6102 shows off its ore dust at the Superior roundhouse as the vintage SD9 waits for its engineer to walk by and climb aboard the attached Geep. Time to go to work on another ore transfer job mo... (more)

The brakeman signals the engineer at Missouri Pacific's interchange with the DeQueen and Eastern.

Running as Extra 2707, train 167 receives orders from the Statesville agent. The train left the Washington-NOLA main at Mooresville, and is about to head west toward Asheville.

The head-end brakeman on the local switch job is dressed in the traditional classic railroader's garb of 1972. The mandatory wearing of bright colored safety vests is still decades away.

On the first day of Spring the wet snow is falling as the head-end crew of an excursion train to Drummondville confer before backing their power down the two miles to Windsor Station to pick up th... (more)

The head end brakeman climbs aboard after the local running between Grand Island and Kearney has finished working the elevators at Wood River.

A switch crew on their way to work the small yard at the SCL freight house just south of Union Station has just had a brief respite from the June afternoon heat as they rolled below Union's shed.

Before radios - the engineer has the brakeman clearly in view as they switch the CN interchange at Delson.

On the first day of Spring the wet snow is falling as the head-end crew of an excursion train to Drummondville confer before backing their power down the two miles to Windsor Station to pick up th... (more)

The conductor of this eastbound steps outside from his mobile office for a breath of fresh air, while his train is stopped at Ebony on the former PRR in 1977.

The head brakeman is aligning the switch for a westbound manifest freight led by three E units, just east of the legendary Broad street tower. The C&O line is visible in the distance.