Retired MRS1 1603 (former US Army B-2053) sits quietly at Anchorage locomotive depot in August 1985.

Every so often the big Alcos would come chugging down to the tower, cross the ATSF & UP main and proceed east. We could almost imagine they were going to keep going but it was just a cut of cars ... (more)

I'm just guessing this was a recently retired Houston unit but I don't remember seeing it around before or after this shot.

Classic Alco rests early on a Sunday morning. This unit is still operational serving a rural grain elevator just west of Mattoon.

Somebody call the police: I'm being held hostage and they are forcing me to submit this ugly@@s attempt at an F7 rebuild. Seriously, back in those days of being overrun by CF7s, my partner in Sou... (more)

Unsure of the date, but we heard this power set bring a train off the Conroe district as we were zooming up and down the Santa Fe between Bellville and Temple, so we planned accordingly to get bac... (more)

Santa Fe's GP7 and GP9 rebuilds, though as numerous and buggy as mosquitos, nonetheless were slimly represented in kodachrome colors. So when Dallas bud Tim Jones called me up and said "...get yo... (more)

During the time when even the Katy was leasing everything in sight, came along this 'demonstrator' to show off MK's relatively new entrance into 6 axle rebuilds. This was former SP 8402. This wa... (more)

Never knew what would come in off the Conroe district and tie up at Somerville. Whatever the treasure, it would stay all day, so when we blew through in the AM we would shoot the east side, and t... (more)

In town for the WGRF, Mike Abalos and Dan Munson convinced me and Jim in the middle of our light speed pursuits of the high points of Riverdale and environs to get some IHB stuff. Shortly after t... (more)

The Wallisville Road side of Englewood was a safe haven of sorts for the SP fan in Houston, as it afforded public access to all outbound and switching operations: as long as you timed the poles an... (more)

As stated many times, PTRA was the one to chase in the Houston area if one wanted to see "fantasy" lashups. Going over the ship channel on the 69th street bridge was always a thrill because you c... (more)

It never ceases to amaze me that we took all those BORING MP blues for granted! I remember well the disgust that I felt when I would go through the diesel shop and yard and not catch any UP pool p... (more)

leased LASCO RSD12 at UtahRwy Martin UT yard

Running out of film again, and Park Lane Hobbies being closed for some reason, was zooming over the yard and saw these 2 GP30s with headlight on. So after finding some K64 in the ghetto at somepl... (more)