The UP MNLCN is both in Tennessee and Arkansas as it spans across the Mississippi River on the Union Pacific Harahan Bridge. The other bridges are the BNSF Frisco Bridge (center) and the Memphis-A... (more)

Former EL 1239 & 1213 GP7s remain in their pre-Conrail takeover livery in the yard outside Conrail Scranton Diesel Shop. EL 1213 became CR 5943. EL 1239 became CR 5977. This rail facility is now... (more)

Metre gauge DLW No 2801 crosses the Pantha Path Road in Dhaka with a train of pilgrims heading to the Biswa Ijtema festival at Tongi.

Leaser and Legacy

The early days of Conrail were colorful, if nothing else. On top of all of the predecessor paint schemes that could find their way to any location on the system, ... (more)

UP 8773 leads a short manifest with quite a few extra engines in tow

Four years after the Southern/N&W merger consist like these were on borrowed times as an all Southern team high ball a northbound through Sugar Hill Georgia.

After topping out at Soldier Summit, #18, the Rio Grande Zephyr is now rolling downgrade at Colton, Utah. I remember that this shot was taken in the Spring as there was mud everywhere. This is the... (more)

On Sunday afternoons the "Cornwall Swing" had what appeared to be a very unusual lashup. The four FP7A's had been brought to St. Luc Yard from Vaudreuil (Dorion) on Friday evening after... (more)

Central Maine & Quebec 9014 West is heading toward Farnham at Brigham.

Illinois Central ultimately acquired the very first SD45 produced by EMD. Prototype SD45 4351 became IC 7000 in January 1971. The 7000 lasted until 1987, when it was scrapped.

The re-erection of Conrail's LEMO tower at Strasburg in 1985, with my wife, daughter, and sister-in-law posed for a sense of scale; it's a huge building. The tower was cut into seven pieces for h... (more)

Running light power after dropping all of its cars in Auburn, the engineer of the Finger Lakes Railway's GS-2 notches the quartet of GP38-2's and puts on a good show smashing through snowdrifts at... (more)

Dressed in parent company Watco's sharp black & yellow scheme, Swan Ranch Railroad EMDs 4155 (ex-D&RGW SD40T-2 5395) and 4200 (ex-KCS SD40 625) switch a cut of tank cars inside the Swan Ranch Indu... (more)