FEC GP9 #654 in original color scheme. Photo taken from my slide collection. No photographer listed on slide.

Santa Fe eastbound LA to Chicago Super C ,"Worlds fastest freight" with all freshly painted power is about an hour into it's cross country trip. In late '75 Santa Fe painted five of their newer SD... (more)

A General Electric P32BWH enjoys a quiet evening at Rio Grande's passenger station in Salt Lake City. Just before midnight, the 511 will lead train No. 35, the 'Desert Wind' to Las Vegas and Los A... (more)

GOC (Golden Rock) based YDM4 #6347 working train 768 14h15 Dindigul to Palakkad crosses classmate #6308 working train 775 13h15 Palakkad to Dindigul passenger on 13th February 2008. The sight of ... (more)

SP commute service on the Vasona branch ended in 1964, and there was never passenger service on the spur between Simla and the Permanente cement plant in Cupertino. But on August 27, 1991, occupie... (more)

SP "Kodachrome" SD9 4418 leads the Permanente Local's long string of loaded coal hoppers up the grade to the cement plant in the foothills of Cupertino, CA on Feb. 23, 1987. Assisting are SD9 4341... (more)

After CN announced that they planned to purchase the DM&IR, local officials decided to run "Safety Specials" for employees and their families. In reality the passenger trips were more like a farew... (more)

A bluebonnet F rests at Hamlin in this shot from my collection. No photographer listed on slide.

BNSF S ALTOIG1 02A (running as JALOAJ on UP) heads west in the late afternoon with a sweet set of ATSF painted Dash 9s for power. Getting two of these together is rare enough, but finding two that... (more)

In a slide from my collection FP45 3 leads a GP40, a rebuild GP9, and a couple F's westbound. No photographer listed.

Frisco #39 (F7A-F7B-GP7-GP7-F7A) Photo taken from my slide collection. No photographer listed on slide.

Burlington Northern’s Helena local rumbles along the Missouri River at Hardy, Montana, on August 25, 1993. Caboose No. 12604 follows up the 26-car train as it heads west towards Helena Junction,... (more)

A classy and colorful caboose is at the rear of a manifest freight as it rolls west through Griffith almost thirty nine years ago, just east of the famous Broad street tower. Gotta love those spru... (more)

On August 3, 2013, a rather rare event happened on BNSF's Front Range Subdivision. A fisherman with a lot of money chartered a three car private car special from Denver, CO to Montana. The fisherm... (more)

By mid-2002, there were still 47 former Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 “Tunnel Motors” roaming the Union Pacific system, but only seven were not patched (renumbered) or painted yellow. At this time, f... (more)