Burlington Northern F9A 770 leads train 126 at Northtown Yard in Minneapolis March 1974. The 770 was built as Northern Pacific 6701-A in August 1956 and was numbered in the passenger number series... (more)

A westbound Rio Grande manifest drops down the western grade of Tennessee Pass. The s-curve at Mitchell was a popular photo spot, easily accessible via Highway 24.

DRGW 3082 leads an eastbound manifest uphill into Belden siding. A downhill helper set waits on the track along the Eagle Mine. View from Highway 24 high above.

Tom Golden photo.

A westbound Southern Pacific piggyback train passes Redwood Jct. Tower sometime in the 1950s. This image on SP's San Francisco Subdivision was taken by the late John E. Shaw, Jr.

On a typically gloomy spring day in Wisconsin on March 30, 1985, Glenn Monhart’s Charleston & Western Carolina F7 No. 901 does some freight duties during car clean up at the end of operations fo... (more)

An Alco takes a spin on the former Rock Island open pit turntable in Iowa Interstate's Council Bluffs yard. The turntable is still there today, but is now surrounded by development of IAIS's inter... (more)

When the current Oregon Pacific Railroad began operating on the former Molalla Branch of the Southern Pacific, it did so as the Molalla Western Railroad. A few months after the transfer, a trainl... (more)

An F9 ABBA helper set will assist a freight on its climb to Marias Pass.

A quartet of GP9's shunting at Grand Forks.

It is nearing 1:45 pm, at which time Northwestern Pacific train 4, the northbound Redwood, will depart Willits, California, to head for Eureka, some 144 miles ahead. The train, consisting ... (more)

Renumbered, but not repainted, a small group of former GN and Burlington power enjoy some summer sunlight at the former Great Northern roundhouse facilities. As the railroad completed revising Nor... (more)

The NS track crew has cleared up by the old Railroad House Hotel in Lebanon, as the Lackawanna Heritage Unit heads west on No. 2 Track

An eastbound Southern Pacific manifest freight grinds uphill climbing Tennessee Pass and crosses the Eagle River approaching Pando, Colorado, on August 2, 1996. Not only does the train have to fig... (more)

CN's infrequent turn to the GM stamping plant in Oshawa, ON does some street running (along with some "front yard running") in one of the more unique Canadian railroading locales.