UP "extra Pedro" cab hop heading to Kaiser Bulk unloading facility in San Pedro to pick up empty coal train to take back to UP East LA yard then to Utah

A rare visitor to Denver in 1968, one of UP’s great clattering U50’s dominates the ready tracks at the Pullman roundhouse. Likely the 36 came in early morning off the Julesburg line and will l... (more)

As much as some people liked "stealth" apparently motorists didn't and the expedient fix was this, called YN2 as I recall. It is fairly unusual to see a mom and slug at Erwin.

On one of our club trips to the Clinchfield "Loops" we found a local switching this industry. As I recall the guy with the camera didn't belong to us. In the background we see the reason for the... (more)

Look at all bygones. Cars on open railcars. Electric freight on a major railroad. Railfans have been accused of living in the past. Maybe we just notice change more than others. I cherish thi... (more)

An Illinois Central Gulf hotshot freight starts its journey west towards Council Bluffs as it turns west past the classic Beatrice Foods building on Chicago's south side. The consist represents a ... (more)

The pumpkins were pretty neat. The lineage is something like this ACL>SCL>SBD>CSX.

Down in the new trench a former L&N and SBD units leads a SB extra.

Yeah, it's BNSF, but it doesn't say so and it on the Gulf Coast, where it shouldn't be, which is neat. This one used to be in "Kodachrome", see elsewhere on this site.

Many are lamenting the "loss" of the D&H as NS purchases much of the line from the CP. To me, the D&H was lost a long time ago. A classic, late D&H, 3 builder lashup, in 3 paint scheme variatons, ... (more)

In 1980, the Delaware & Hudson gave a new lease on life to nine of Conrail's retired ex-EL and ex-RDG C424's, having them rebuilt and placing them back in service. Here, an ex-Reading unit leads a... (more)

Having conquered the Belden Hill grade, southbound Delaware and Hudson train exits Bevier Street yard in Binghamton and is aligned to cross the Conrail Southern Tier line and proceed to East Bing... (more)

The consist matches the dull day as a westbound train crosses over the Lehigh Valley and approaches East Penn Junction. This helps to illustrate why early Conrail was so difficult to swallow for t... (more)

SP transfer power sits next to BN units borrowed for RCE testing at SP's West Colton engine facility

The Cambria and Indiana's daily train is preparing to leave Colver with representatives of every model on the roster, an MP15, three SW1500's and three SW9's. Also resident on the C&I, but nowhere... (more)