Under dreary winter skies, the Pittsburg & Shawmut train from Brookville fits comfortably on the large trestle at East Branch, Pennsylvania. Today’s unusually short train has eleven empty 100-to... (more)

A weathered 'Kodachrome' painted SD45R pulls Southern Pacific's Roper to Grand Junction manifest freight, approaching the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon on Sept. 19, 1993.

Santa Fe SD45 B-unit 5501 is painted in the Yellowbonnet scheme at the San Bernardino Shops. This scheme was decided against upon and was repainted without the cigar band logo and Yellowbonnet and... (more)

ICG 6049 in the Gray and Orange scheme leads a GP30 still painted in GM&O colors (the 509), GP10 8221 and GP40 3062 through the yard at Fulton.

Four Burlington Northern GE C30-7s pull hard on a coal train rounding Breezy Point west of Belmont, Nebraska, on the climb over Crawford Hill on July 7, 1996. In the background on the other side o... (more)

GN 573 was the first SD9 purchased by Great Northern Railway, following acquisition of 23 SD7s, mostly for service in iron ore country. This is a Phase 1 SD9, looking essentially the same as an SD... (more)

A pair of Conrail Geeps shuffle coal hoppers at Ashtabula, OH on a typically dreary March day in 1981. Conrail was nearing its fifth anniversary, the country was in a recession, and Stanley Crane ... (more)

A Westbound roadrailer passes though Wilmerding, PA on a cold January day. The large green building to the left is part of the Westinghouse Air Brake Co. At the top of the photo is Pitcairn Yard.

New Jersey DOT 4876, the GG1 that lead a runaway train into Washington Union Station, waits in South Amboy, New Jersey for a train from the Jersey shore to arrive. After the train arrives, the E u... (more)

North Platte, Nebraska, was and remains the place to sample everything old and new running on the Union Pacific. On October 2, 1966, the new included Alco Century 855 61, parked at the fuel rack j... (more)

By the early 1960s Union Pacific was looking around for a diesel model to replace its turbines, something that, run in three-unit sets, could produce 15,000 hp. GE’s answer was the twin-engine U... (more)

Burlington Northern “Expediter” intermodal No. 41 is about to clatter across the Chicago Central diamonds at East Dubuque, Illinois, on March 10, 1991. This very unique track arrangement is at... (more)

The pressure valve on its steam boiler just popped. A Roger Puta Photograph

”Adrian, there’s another train under me!”

After passing through the tunnel that is located under the east side of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Conrail Train TV-171, the O... (more)

A pair of Western Maryland SD40s shove against the caboose of a Chessie System freight as the sun drops, during rush hour in suburban DC.