As the bridge indicates, this line was once double-tracked as Hocking Valley's mainline to the heart of its coal traffic in Nelsonville. Today, the line becomes choked with weeds when summer comes... (more)

Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum is about to roll onto the turntable as TAG 80 rests at the Soule Shop in East Chattanooga.

Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum 1829 is about to enter the Missionary Ridge tunnel as it travels west towards the Soule Shops in East Chattanooga.

Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum 1829 wait for passengers to board before it takes the Missionary Ridge train west to the Soule Shops in East Chattanooga.

Dawn breaks over Hamden as Ohio South Central 104 trundles out of the yard. A lot has changed for the old B&O mainline, but the codeline, at least for a few yards, is still here.

As dusk approaches, CNW 4142 takes the switch at Clyman Jct. on CNW's Adams Line and begins the trek back to Jefferson Jct. with a large cut of grain hoppers. Business on this Wisconsin branch lin... (more)

Dressed-up in full "wings" treatment, RI GP7 1226 with F7(A) 103 lays over at Council Bluffs, Iowa on April 27, 1958. Photo by L.E. Stagner, from my slide collection.

CNW 4370 switches one of the few remaining industries east of the Milwaukee River in the 3rd Ward near downtown Milwaukee. The crane is a Bucyrus Erie Model 30B, manufactured only a few miles sout... (more)

BN GP7 1582 leads a 6 unit consist of Geeps and SDs as it handles a pickup and set out at Savanna, IL on a snowless early January morning in 1976. Savanna was a crew change and junction point for... (more)

An EMD GP7 and SW1500 put on a good show as the Iowa Southern crew pulls cars out of their interchange with BNSF in Albia, Iowa on a frigid but sunny evening. Albia is the northern terminus of thi... (more)

The wildflowers provide a brilliant contrast to plainer-than-plain Georgia Railroad GP7 1023. The train is a run-through Cincy-NOLA train that operates on L&N north of Atlanta, and south of Montg... (more)

Milwaukee's 3rd Ward was once a beehive of railroad activity on the CNW. Only a few customers are left in this shot from March of 1983 as CNW 4131 negotiates some rough track between buildings. Al... (more)