Four Alco's FA1-FB1 and two RS-3's leads this New York Central train near Detroit, Michigan on December 22, 1966. Photo from my collection, no photographer information on slide.

In October 1995, Southern Pacific 4449 spent a week on Portland & Western doing public relations work. On the last day that the steamer operated, the late David Goodheart set up this photo op in ... (more)

Three of the Jersey Central's nine SD40s await their next job at the CNJ/RDG engine terminal at Bethlehem, PA, on a spring day. The CNJ's austerity paint scheme was somewhat less than flashy.

The Reading owned a dozen of Alco's handsome Century 630s. RDG 5301 posed at the joint RDG/CNJ engine terminal in Bethlehem, PA, on a spring day.

P-motor switching at "North White"

Union Pacific Challenger 3985 is backing its consist for to wye the train at Laramie, Wyoming as an eastbound freight barrels through town. The lead SD40-2’s carry the slogans, “Fuel Conserva... (more)

An eastbound train of lumber empties is rolling along the Black Butte Subdivision. The orange plating over the class light receptacles was something I never saw on any other SP locomotive.

Thanks to some mechanical ailment, the tunnel motor leading this westbound lumber drag is putting out a plume of smoke worthy of a steam locomotive. There was once a siding here named Jerome.

The peace of a summer evening is shattered by an eastbound drag of lumber empties on the Shasta Route. This train has completed the climb out of the Sacramento River Canyon and is now closing in ... (more)

The head end brakeman climbs aboard after the local running between Grand Island and Kearney has finished working the elevators at Wood River.

The power for NJ's Train 200 to Rouses Point, NY and CP RS-10 8594 for a local transfer wait patiently to get onto their trains in St. Luc's busy departure yard.

Sailing high above the James River, a northbound Southern Railway piggyback train is stretched along the trestle over the James River in Lynchburg, Virginia. Southern’s GP50’s were the only on... (more)