A trio of new Chargers at the Wilmington Shops.

The Veterans unit has been running on Bowden local #905 more often than not since its debut.

Sometimes, all the connections and apps in the world don't have one up on pure luck. This train was due here well before sunrise, but a refuel before leaving Baldwin was just enough time to break... (more)

Early Morning Steam. Dressed up in FEC garb, the beautifully restored U.S. Sugar Light Pacific 148 does a runby early on the morning of a photo charter hosted by the railroad.

Ex-Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines.

I listed it as Bunge but in fact unit was probably ex-EJ&E, leased from RELCO. This one changed hands many times. Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.

Everybodys darling

Met 1 heading back to Dallas yard.

The CN&W use their Oelwein Shops til May 31, 1994. The line from Oelwein from Marshalltown was severed in 1987-88 due to the construction of the highway thru Waterloo. The CNW then used the IANR t... (more)

Coal trains on the Santa Fe race track looked out of place. These York Canyon Coal trains were heading to McCook and points east. Usually, these heavy trains got 3-4 big GEs for power. As seen he... (more)

The BN ran 2 intermodal trains to Denver out of Chicago. One ran early morning into Galesburg, and the other one at night. The night one has stayed thru the BNSF era. Train 65 was normally the day... (more)

Th BN tested 4 SD60MAC's and then later in 1993 they placed an order for 350 SD70MAC's. The SD60s were the test bed to what became a huge investment in the coal power fleet with the purchase of th... (more)

In the early 90s, my mother and I made a lot of trips to Galesburg for railroad days. It was some of the 1st places we went and seen major train action. The BNSF merger would make Galesburg the hu... (more)

The American Orient Express (AOE) was a privately-owned, high-class passenger train that operated in conjunction with Amtrak from 1994 until 2008. A total of 11 streamlined cars were purchased and... (more)

Ex-Penn Central.