BNSF 9297 wears BNSF's initial experimental "Heritage" orange and green paint scheme. It featured a solid 3" red pinstripe that separated the orange and Brunswick green along the right carbody... (more)

OKLAHOMA CITY Dec 18 1983 — Unpatched Oklahoma Kansas Texas (Conrail) GP38-2 8236 is tied down at Harter Yard. EMD built the unit in September 1978. In this photo the 8236 is on lease to the OKT... (more)

A trainload of empty garbage containers heads south on the Shasta Route. The train was operated from Roosevelt, Washington by BNSF. Union Pacific will take the train to Suisun-Fairfield, where it ... (more)

UP GP38-2 2033 leads an A-B-B-B consist featuring two SD24Bs and an Omaha GP20B as it accelerates away from Argo Yard along Airport Way on UP trackage. It will reach Black River Jct. several miles... (more)

Santa Fe’s QNYLA intermodal train, operating from New York to Los Angeles with Conrail, flies out of Chillicothe, Illinois, at 12:17 p.m. on December 8, 1990. Super Fleet GE B40-8W No. 503 and a... (more)

In an unusual move, a pair of Burlington Northern EMD SD70MACs power Canadian Pacific’s train 425 west past the Brookfield depot in a Wisconsin snowstorm on the eve of January 26, 1996.

BN 9804, former NP 6701A built in August 1956, has been pulled from passenger service and is seen here at Minneapolis mated up with a former GN GP20. Amtrak did not acquire this unit.

BN 6473, an SD45 ordered by NP but delivered to BN in July 1970, leads train 3, the Pacific Zip out of North La Crosse through Onalaska, WI on the beginning of a quick run to St. Paul, and ultimat... (more)

Livingston, Montana was Northern Pacific's major diesel maintenance facility for their entire transcontinental fleet of freight and passenger locomotives as well as the Rocky Mountain Division... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific coal train meets an westbound SP train at Soldier Summit, Utah, on September 7, 1995. During this era, SP AC4400CWs were common on this former Rio Grande main line.

Big blue Conrail GE No. 6040 leads an eastbound CR freight through New Carlisle, Indiana, at 1:35 p.m. on March 16, 1991. CR No. 6040 is one of 25 4,000 hp C40-8's bought from GE in 1989, assigned... (more)

A fine example of the ill-fated "Kodachrome" paint scheme this unit also has something called the "5 Cab" for cabooseless operation on locals. Photo by Dave Petke. From my co... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train H-KCRI1-23 rolls into Barstow, where the crew that has handled this train across the Needles Sub, having boarded in Needles, will get off to allow a fres... (more)

VANCOUVER WA Oct 2 1978 — Retired Burlington Northern RS3 4082 (Northern Pacific paint for lawsuit) sits in the sun at the engine facility. Alco built the unit (b/n 81155) in March 1955 as NP 85... (more)

Chicago & North Western EMD SD40-2 Nos. 6907 and 6901, running through on the Conrail main line to Elkhart Yard in Indiana, power eastbound CR ELPR through the long curves at New Carlisle, Indiana... (more)