When you can't find an Alco to shoot I guess an old GE U25B is just as good. When L&N U25B's were on their last leg they were used around Cincinnati as transfer power to the other yards around her... (more)
EMD locomotives from Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, and Rio Grande lead a 57 car MROKS east through Riverton on May 31, 1997. The SP 8694 was built Erie Lackawanna SDP45 No. 3665 in Aug. 1970 an... (more)
A quartet of vintage Alcos shove a coal empty up the steep Wattis Branch to the Plateau mine on Sept. 3, 1978.
Two SD60M and a SD40-2 perform a little switching at Wash with the contaminated dirt train. UP 2423 is really belching the black smoke.
Ooof! That thing is heavy. UP Alco S4 switcher 1181 drags an EMD DD35B around the diesel shop at Kansas City, Kansas July 11, 1965.
Florida Central GP18 No. 59 runs down Osceola Street in Ocala on sister road Florida Northern. The light locomotive has just cleared the diamond with CSX at the Ocala depot; the signal is the adva... (more)
Lake State Bay City job works the south end of Bay City yard. W.T. Clynes photo, Robert Jordan collection.
TRC 2009 passes the old water tower at Garden City as it approaches the Union Pacific interchange at Searles with 17 loads of potash on the drawbar.
Here is a unique configuration as baby tunnel motor UPY 629 (GP15-1) runs long hood forward while teaming up with UPY 1329 (MP15DC) to pull a string of freight out of the 36th Street Yard.
Throughout the early 1960s, a railfan could count on finding one of Rio Grande’s five Alco RS-3’s on the Sedalia local, south out of Denver. Here on February 26, 1964 the 5202 passes South De... (more)
The Honorary Steam Locomotive
Kick 'em!
A well-worn S3 switches the yard in Toledo.
A 281 train bound for the C&M Sub (via A5) heads east through Elmwood Park. DME 4005, 4001 and SOO 4445 round out the lash-up on this sunny morning. The engineer puts the hammer down as the classi... (more)
