Loads East, Empties West

Hinton, West Virginia was a busy division point on the Chesapeake & Ohio. Although there was other traffic, the predominant commodity carried on the C&O wa... (more)

MILW 305, a late phase GP9 looks pretty dapper in its original scheme as it waits for its next assignment at Milwaukee Road's Tacoma Tide Flats yard 13 months before the demise of western extensio... (more)

Venice IL Aug 6 1976 -- Union Electric Lines 7 (left) and 4 are examples of fireless cookers. No 7 has already lost its headlight but still has its generator.

GRANADA CO June 17 1979 -- ATSF GP39-2 3613 blasts htough Granada. Unit 3613 was sold to Portland & Western/Williamette & Pacific.

A Santa Fe local heads westbound west of Wilburn, Illinois, on April 19, 1986. The local is powered by a pair of four-motor EMDs—GP39-2 No. 3642 and GP38 No. 2322.

Amtrak leased a group of 15 GP40s from Helm Financial Corporation in the early 1990s. Engine 656 idles between assignments at the Rio Grande depot in Salt Lake City on March 1, 1992. It was built ... (more)

Doing exactly what they were purchased to do, a pair of Chessie SD50’s brings a trainload of tidewater-bound coal through Hinton, West Virginia on the Chesapeake & Ohio main line. SD50’s gaine... (more)

Commuter passenger service presented unique challenges to the railroads that operated these trains. One of those challenges was keeping the lights on in the coaches. Long-distance passenger cars w... (more)

Waiting at an approach signal for single track at Palmer Lake at a location known as the “Sag” near Spruce is a southbound Burlington Northern coal train. Four new Oakway Leasing EMD SD60s, al... (more)

Union Pacific EMD MP15DC No.1319 Ex-C&NW 1309, with yard slug S-10 rebuilt from retired Missouri Pacific SW8 No.8003.

FORT MADISON IA Sept 18 1979 -- Santa Fe GP20u 3038 basks in the sun waiting for a call to duty.

With my wife standing under the Amtrak herald for a sense of scale, No. 4932 languishes by the original visitor center building. The locomotive was later moved to Cooperstown Junction, NY, and th... (more)

An eastbound freight from Minneapolis climbs the grade out of the Chippewa and Eau Claire River valley as it heads into Altoona yard. GP50 no. 5099 is brand new having been built earlier this mont... (more)

Fallen Flags everywhere. While waiting inside Gibson City Tower for the American Freedom Train passenger special to arrive, Tom Golden was able to capture a freight pass through on the Illinois C... (more)

On the late summer day of September 5, 1987, Burlington Northern train No. 3 speeds through Polo, Illinois. Three “tiger-stripe” EMD GP50s splicing a fuel tender are power for the hot train he... (more)