In a view that the great O. Winston Link saw on a regular basis on the Abingdon Branch, N&W 382 passes through a snow bank as big as the engine as the engineer leans out the window checking the cl... (more)

In a classic scene that can't be replicated today, the helper set out of Essex with F9A 810 (NP 7002D), F9B 809 (NP 7002C) and GP9 1765 (GN 692) has uncoupled from a heavy eastbound manifest they ... (more)

The first train through the teeth of the 2010 blizzard makes easy work of the 2 ft of snow. The HHP was whistling as they blasted through at near 100 mph. Incredible.

Santa Fe 315, with a yellow variation of the famous "Warbonnet" paint scheme, leads three more F7 B units on Amtrak's Texas Chief. Union Station would close and the remaining Amtrak traffic would... (more)

QNSL 425 basks in the low winter sun outside of the Sept-Îles shops.

Here comes the next archive picture from Timken. The text on the photo says the following: “One of the eight Timken Olympian trains on the Milwaukee Road arriving in Chicago after a 70 hour run ... (more)

Classic Southern Pacific! SP F7A 6325 and F7B 8219 (both November 1950 graduates of the EMD La Grange, IL, factory) sit with a caboose at the station in Chatsworth, California, on the SP's Coast ... (more)

Southern Pacific's famed "Coast Daylight" (known as the "most beautiful train in the world"), train 99, ascends the grade at Chatsworth as it heads from the San Fernando Valley northward (railroad... (more)

An A-B-B-B-A set of U.S. Steel F7s power a southbound train from the mine at Atlantic City to a connection with the Union Pacific at Rock Springs, WY. The railroad only operated from August 1962 ... (more)

CN Train 383 through Windsor always seemed to have surprises for us, especially when new locomotives from the GMDD plant in London were on delivery. BN SD60M #1991 was en route to the BN in Chica... (more)

Heading for Columbus from Pittsburgh.

IAIS 513 is fresh out of the MAC shop and ready to be shipped to Iowa. Too bad it's been cloudy in KC for the past 2 weeks.

Challenger X3966 is serviced and is backing up to it's train, impressive even on the dark side. For more color views from that day, click here... (more)

This photo is dedicated to the memory of Roger Rassche, fellow railfan, photographer and modeler, who passed the next day after this image was taken. You're in a better place now Roger, but a l... (more)

Gas-Turbine #51 makes a move past John's camera on it's way from the ready tracks to a train. The Bunker C burned by the locomotive had a big carbon footprint, as is evidenced in this view. It t... (more)