Former ACL unit.

A two-step "waist" ahead of the cab marks this unit as an early version of the NW2. Note the trucks. SCL was an early adopter of roller bearings.

Strange bedfellows at Corwith Yard on the Santa Fe in Chicago. Relatively new GP60 ATSF 4022 is joined by former MILW/SOO SD40-2, EMD 6082, featuring the low moment for both Milwaukee Road and Soo... (more)

BN 9859 (Passenger number), an SDP45, is seen in freight service at Minneapolis' Harrison St. roundhouse. With the creation of Amtrak, BN was quick to pull SDP40s & 45s off passenger trains and mo... (more)

CNW 6721 prepares to do some work at Powers, MI. in May of 1986. Once finished they will head south to Green Bay, WI. with train ESGBA.

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

Weather was abysmal, but the at least the subject is rare and worthy. Green Bay & Western Alco RS3 (RS3u) No. 308 leads three Fox River Valley Railroad Geeps on a northbound freight departing Nort... (more)

It appears that winterization hatch is needed as the old beast drills some freight cars. Photo by unknown. From my collection.

Santa Fe GP50 3842 leads a trio of Superfleet GP60Ms and a GP60B west on the south side of Streator with a 199 high priority Intermodal train made up mostly if not entirely of TOFC. Santa Fe was n... (more)

BN 3001, former CBQ GP40 no. 171, built December 1966, mates up with a GP30 and U25B at the former Burlington roundhouse area at North La Crosse, WI, the first crew change on BN east of St. Paul/M... (more)

BN 6254, former CBQ SD24 no. 514, built May 1959, shows off its BN scheme complete with former Burlington Mars lights at Harrison Street roundhouse, Minneapolis.

Running on the Colorado & Southern trackage at Sand Creek Junction near Denver on September 09, 1968, an eastbound Burlington freight is propelled by five Chinese red units with U28B 112 on the ... (more)