8165 may still be around, but lots of other stuff in this photo is gone or significantly altered. The signals were removed years ago, the wood-related traffic is mostly gone, the pole line was re... (more)

SP/UP power was common on 615 at the time of this photo, but an SD45T-2 - even as ragged as this one - had become something of a prize catch.

Eastbound Ft. Dodge, IA, to Waterloo, IA, local is stopped waiting for another crew to take it into Waterloo.

An eastbound grain train out of Waterloo works over the hogbacks east of Raymond. These 4 GP38's are in for a workout the next 130 miles as they make their way east to Chicago.

An eastbound grain train is pounding the grade out of Hilltop as they pass thru Raymond, about 6 miles east of Waterloo. All 4 GP38's are all out to keep the tonnage moving. For many years geeps w... (more)

Five of Santa Fe's homebuilt CF7's led a grain train through Torrance, CA. It was common on weekends when fewer switch units were needed in LA to through together a bunch to power an extra train d... (more)

Traversing fields of alfalfa and winter wheat, Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp rambles west approaching Welby Yard in West Jordan. Note the tiny plane among the cumulous clouds, preparing to land at Sa... (more)

It seemed fitting that one of the last trains I would see operating over Tennessee Pass was led by a Rio Grande Tunnel Motor. If I recall the events of that day correctly, AHNOA (Autos - Herringt... (more)

A pair of redbarns was hard to come by even back when CP was good to shoot. Now with the abundance of GE power used by the railroad, these classic units are hard to come by. When we got word of tw... (more)

CP 5546,5552 and leaser 5083 roll 67 cars of manifest freight past a small pond near Benny. On this day a steel gang was busy in the area and had just cleared up after a long work window allowing ... (more)

A pair of Rio Grande GP9s drag a heavy coal train across the Union Pacific Provo Subdivision at Lakota Crossing. In 1985, these diamonds were removed and switches added to connect UP trains onto t... (more)

A coal train with a pair of SD40-2s and a U30C illustrates typical CSX unit train power of the late '80s, just before the C40 invasion. It's a bit odd, in that it is southbound on the former WofA... (more)

On July 4, 1983, the D&RGW opened a new mainline through the Thistle Tunnel, bypassing the old town of Thistle buried beneath a 300 foot natural dam and submerged beneath a new lake. The first thr... (more)

The regular passenger train of the Ba-Shi Railway passes through the scenic Sichuan countryside. It is bound for the village of Bagou where the railway terminates and serves a small coal mine. The... (more)

Did you ever think UP coal train power could look this nice? Five month old UP 9450, a GE C41-8, leads a CDSBS coal load west along the Provo Subdivision approaching the US Highway 6 overpass in S... (more)