BNSF 1098 West is laboring up the final mile of the long grade to the summit of Marias Pass at the aptly named control point "Summit" - 1150 miles from St. Paul, MN. Fuji Astia.

The old colors and the new ride in tandem as an eastbound BNSF freight rolls along Montana Rail Link's 4th Subdivision between Hope and Clark Fork, ID. The Santa Fe SFD40-2 is a nice touch. Fuji A... (more)

LMS 724, one of the GE lease units painted for Big Blue, drops downgrade past the westward home signals for MG on an autumn afternoon. STES (Sterling, MI to Harrington, DE) has auto parts for Newa... (more)

It's one of those brooding autumn afternoons with intermittent sunlight and exhilarating air. Adding to the exhilaration, here comes NS 9312 West charging out the Juniata River valley at the 4th S... (more)

What we have here is a discouraging matter of timing in that the 6406, a train of empty PPLX hoppers, had stalled at MG and had to await rescue helpers to come up from Altoona to shove. It got mov... (more)

It's a chilly morning on the mountain as symbol PIMO for Morrisville, PA eases downgrade just past the westward home signals for MG. The 135 car tonnage outfit had five locomotives on the point pl... (more)

In the waning light of an autumn afternoon, a westbound manifest comes 'round the bend into Horseshoe Curve at the now defunct 2416/2417 signal bridge.

I was just a kid and using my father's Voigtlander camera on occasion. We were fortunate to see Rio Grande No.1, the "Royal Gorge", as it made its scheduled stop in the depths of the Ark... (more)

Shortly before the bottom fell out of the economy, never to fully return insofar as rail traffic, UP 4668 has re-crewed and is preparing to head for North Platte.

NS 9398 leading a renumbered Conrail SD60 and 111 cars of manifest traffic rolls out the Juniata River valley at Leshville, a few miles east of Newport. J. Edgar Thompson's selection of this route... (more)

UP 7074 West has a relatively short string of reefers as it clears the control point at CP49, Best, on a summer afternoon. Descendants of the once ubiquitous orange Pacific Fruit Express ice bunke... (more)

On a hot and humid July afternoon the 5540 East is crossing over at Port interlocking, a short distance west of the town of Newport. The track in the foreground is the old main line that went righ... (more)

PB&NE No.35 has a cut of slag cars in a scene of industrial America. Bethlehem was, of course, a huge generator of inbound and outbound rail traffic. Mills once proliferated in the eastern Pennsyl... (more)

Left turn, Clyde. The 616 East is diverging from the joint track arrangement that exists with NS (nee Wabash), some sixty miles east of Kansas City. It being just a few months after the BNSF merge... (more)

Back in the good ole days of railfanning when the railroad was four-tracks wide, the signal system was as it should be, manifest traffic prevailed and most everyone was friendly, a GP9 and a GP9B ... (more)