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)

WC 6533 leads an empty seasonal CNW ore train at Ingram, WI in November of 1990. They met the loaded eastbound train here on WC (ex-SOO) tracks, put the WC helper from the loaded train on the poin... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD SD45 No. 382 is leading MRL’s Helena local, and is headed westbound through Lombard, Montana, on the evening of June 27, 2016.

Four icons of 1960’s railroading, a GP40, a GP9, an RSD12, and an SD45 occupy the Norfolk & Western engine servicing area at Lamberts Point, Virginia.

Wisconsin Central SD45 7505 is the former WC 6505, originally BN 6505. (Schiller Park, Illinois - September 20, 1997)

The Port of Royal Slope just southeast of Royal City, Washington, operates a former Milwaukee Road branch line from Royal City to the Pacific Extension main line at Royal City Junction, and also o... (more)

A pair of SD45 helpers push hard on the ex-EL caboose on the tail end of a westbound van train just 7 tenths of a mile below the apex of Horseshoe Curve.

The Port of Royal Slope just southeast of Royal City, Washington, operates a former Milwaukee Road branch line from Royal City to the Pacific Extension main line at Royal City Junction, and also o... (more)

About as spartan and bland as a locomotive could get, PRR 6208 leads hotshot CNY-4 on No.1 track through the super-elevated curve along the banks of the Susquehanna River in Duncannon, PA. There w... (more)

My father and I were on our way to upstate New York to catch NKP Berkshire No. 759 leading a High Iron excursion. We spent the night, as we so often did, beside the tracks - here along the D&H roa... (more)

Ex-EL 3625, leader of a stored westbound manifest freight.

Southern Pacific 8832 leads two more SP and two Norfolk & Western engines into West Colton yard, while another freight, with SP 8710, waits for the train to clear so it can go through the switches... (more)

SD45s 6202 and 6217, just a few months old, heel to the super-elevated curve at Lewistown, PA on a summer morning with the 55 cars of hotshot AST-4. This curve bore the lowest speed restriction of... (more)

SD45s - in two paint schemes - take a grain train west from the former Virginian facility at Sewells Point.

Some of the units currently displayed in yard five, under an amazing sunset.