Looking Santa Fe, like it should, the 5836 West comes out of the sag between Chalender and Williams Jct. as the snow is still melting on the Arizona Divide.

An eastbound redball sails into Camden, MO on a Sunday morning, making haste for Marceline and beyond. A pity the Frisco locomotive colors didn't last into this era, but it's nice to see the coons... (more)

Merger partners: CNW 8684 leads an SP and a DRGW SD40T-2 with a westbound manifest through the control point at CPW 322 on the 226 mile crew district between North Platte and Cheyenne.

LMS 713 works upgrade passing MG as a set of helpers drift downgrade. The 1944 MG Block Station was built to add crossover capability on the lengthy grade from Altoona to Gallitzin, made critical ... (more)

LMS 716 with a Conrail Dash8 and SD40-2 lead 119 cars of coal through the crossover at Huntingdon. The 1900 vintage block station still stands, albeit without an active function in controlling the... (more)

Roaring off the Omaha Sub and about to hit the Sioux City Sub diamond at Ashland, NE, BN 7136 West has a couple big birds behind the power. The track in the foreground is the Creston Sub leading t... (more)

After rush hour and the vestiges of the westbound passenger fleet – Nos. 31 and 49, "The Spirit of St. Louis" and "The Broadway Limited" - had departed, freight activity on t... (more)

One of the finest displays of raw power was the movement of iron ore trains over the Alleghenies. Upon the arrival of a ship at an eastern pier such as Greenwich in South Philadelphia (or Baltimor... (more)

A set of five helpers lean into the 102 car payload of iron ore on CR 6847 West passing MG interlocking.

The Penn-Central years were bleak years in many ways, from the appearance of locomotives to the state of decline that so epitomized the plight of northeastern railroading in that time. Nevertheles... (more)

SD70-MACs were the premier coal haulers for a number of years on BN/BNSF. Here a lovely pair are motoring into the yard at Alliance, NE with another string of empty coal buckets on an April aftern... (more)

With a new crew on-board, the 8817 West is ready to power up for the trip to North Platte. The second unit, SP 8668, was originally a CB&Q unit that eventually found its way to the Espee and was r... (more)

In late summer the idyllic Nebraska Sandhiils are alive with sunflowers. Lonely US 2 has almost every passing vehicle driver offering a friendly wave. On a subdivision dominated by coal trains, BN... (more)

The fledgling Colorado River, before its confluence with the Eagle, the Gunnison and the Green, is still mighty enough to carve deep canyons. A four-pack of Rio Grande SD40T-2s has a coal train of... (more)

Operator Dick Herr is entering information on the Station Record of Train Movements at the 1938 vintage Union Switch & Signal Co. CTC machine governing train movements from Glen Loch through Coate... (more)