Pulling a couple loads of grain from the classic wood elevator a Fort St. John Yard Job goes about its duties switching local industries on the perimeter of the terminal.

A Snowflake Special in the early morning light heading out of San Jose in the eastbay area

A westbound WM freight passes MY Tower at Maryland Junction in Ridgeley, WV on Aug. 18, 1974 with F7A No. 235 and a RS-3.

Southern Pacific 9177 leads Milwaukee Road SD40-2s MILW 156, MILW 174 and MILW 168 south out of the Taylor Yard and along the "river" in Los Angeles. The train is waiting for a red signal to clea... (more)

A Barber Shop Quartet of EMD F45's lead a Burlington Northern eastbound freight along Puget Sound through the "S" curves at Carkeek Park enroute to Everett, then east over Stevens Pass and onward ... (more)

Westbound train 93 passes the wrecked remains of train 92 from the day before. Date is approximate.

Eastbound freight led by Southern Pacific SD40M-2 No. 8668 departs a plugged Hoisington Yard at Hoisington, Kansas, on September 3, 1995. Two more eastbounds wait on the adjoining tracks for new c... (more)

Up until a couple of years ago, you could find the 192, and two of her twin sisters lugging 100 car trains of coal to and from the Hoot Lake Power Plant in Fergus Falls. Starting out with the NS,... (more)

PC SD45 No. 6162 teams up with a SD40 and a SD35 to lift an ore drag up the East Slope below Horseshoe Curve on July 18, 1975. Looking back, I was amazed on that trip to see how much ore PC was m... (more)

Ten wheeler No. 3, the movie queen, simmers outside the Jamestown roundhouse. This facility is now part of the California State Railroad Museum and looks about the same today as it did 50 plus yea... (more)

In those days this was a thriving community in the middle of nowhere. You had to want to go there to get there. The railroad was in beautiful shape. Check the satellite photos to see it now. S... (more)

There was no one around so we went for it and the sum even cooperated a little bit. Nice looking units.

A westbound PC manifest makes a double at the west end of Enola Yard on November 22, 1975, led by SD35 No. 6033.

In a scene that was unfortunately all too familiar at the time, a PC GP9 shoves a wreck train off Rockville Bridge and into Enola Yard on Nov. 22, 1975.

Yard power from Belleville, Ontario, stretch their legs on a Belleville to MacMillian Yard run. CN 7083 and 7075 make a fine sight as sole power on a road freight, passing through Liverpool Juncti... (more)