On a gorgeous Seattle November day, SD45 3618 and mate sandwich BN SD40-2 6910 at Argo Yard. In addition to UP's own wide range of power, their practice of encouraging run through trains with nea... (more)

A CN-IC Decatur-bound grain train has a nice surprise on the point--a WC SD45!

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Q train trundles by as it climbs Bozeman Pass, and with only two locomotive pulling it, MRL’s LM (Laurel to Missoula freight) has caught up to it on red signals an... (more)

WC 6534 works the south end of CNW's Butler, WI yard in September of 1993.

A lash up you would think could only happen on a model railroad. D&RGW SD45's 5328, and 5336, sandwich a big Union Pacific DD35 83. They are going under the over pass at 4th South, running down 4... (more)

Sitting in Canadian Pacific’s Bensenville Yard are two I&M Rail Link (IMRL) SD45s. The I&M Rail Link, owned by the Washington Companies, operated 1,385 miles of trackage in the states of Illino... (more)

”I’ll Take It! Build My House Here!"

That’s a direct quite from one of my friends when we found this view of a westbound Santa Fe manifest at Cable, California. We were ... (more)

Slightly west of Marcel, Californa, a 38-car eastbound Southern Pacific train climbs toward Tehachapi on the morning of May 11, 1984.

Montana Rail Link’s LM (Laurel to Missoula) manifest freight waits at the end of double track west of Livingston, Montana, as a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe Q train passes by on the af... (more)

Wisconsin Central train 242 is climbing Byron Hill south of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on February 26, 1995. WC EMD SD45 Nos. 6523 and 6506 provide 7,200 hp worth of muscle for powering the southboun... (more)

Positioning move from the shop area to the museum.

Before the ACes… An assortment of MRL helpers of various origins rest at Elliston awaiting their next assignment. Shortly after they would head back towards Austin with the first four assisting ... (more)

A 66-car Southern Pacific intermodal train approaches Tunnel 2 on the Tehachapi grade. Three SD45’s and a pair of SD40T-2’s muscle the tonnage over the mountains.

A Union Pacific manifest freight train rolls downgrade out of Plain siding at Plainview, Colorado, on September 25, 1997. It may be a UP train, but there isn’t an Armour yellow locomotive to be ... (more)