Three EMD’s in the final Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac paint scheme roll a southbound manifest through Doswell, Virginia.

A southbound RF&P TOFC train is making track speed as it approaches the C&O diamond at Doswell, Virginia. The freight house is still extant in this May, 1982 view.

Not what it seems! The CNW repowered a couple of GP's with Cat engines in the early '80's and called them HE15's. The radiator fans and grills were dead giveaways to their non-EMD power. Not a suc... (more)

NORMAN OK July 18 1980 -- A crew member is on the ground preparing to watch as a westbound (compass south) train rolls by on the main line. Santa Fe CF7 2591 is in charge of this eastbound (compas... (more)

Santa Fe SD45 B-unit 5502 is painted in the Yellowbonnet scheme at the San Bernardino Shops. This scheme was decided against upon and was repainted without the cigar band logo and Yellowbonnet and... (more)

The morning fog typical of early October has just begun to lift as a Pittsburg & Shawmut train is just a few miles out of Brookville as it heads to the mines.

CNW 6801, their first SD40-2 is on the point of an eastbound freight waiting for a new crew at Altoona, WI. The next crew will run the train southeast to Adams, WI where another crew will handle i... (more)

These Jets are Grounded

New Haven’s ten 1954 General Electric EP5 rectifier electric locomotives had extremely loud blowers, earning them the moniker “jets”. With their slee... (more)

Highs and Lows

Switching cars on the Southern Pacific's line into Anaheim, parallel to Interstate 5, are C415 2403 and SD7 1437. The extra-height cab on the C415 is clearly evident ... (more)

The annual sugar beet campaign is underway in northern Colorado as Great Western Railway SW-1’s 62 and 63 with caboose 1010 set out in late afternoon, October 26, 1968, from Johnstown for Lovela... (more)

Spring is barely in evidence on May 15, 1972 as Milwaukee Road GP9 211 accelerates across the James River bridge at Yankton, S.D., with an eastbound for Sioux City, Iowa. Dating from 1875, this li... (more)

Four Burlington Northern GE C30-7s pull hard on a coal train rounding Breezy Point west of Belmont, Nebraska, on the climb over Crawford Hill on July 7, 1996. In the background on the other side o... (more)

A special Arrowhead Civic Club passenger extra operated by BN from Duluth to Iron River, Wisconsin for underprivileged children arrives at the depot. The kids would enjoy a day of swimming at near... (more)

They say bacon makes everything better.... WRRS wig-wags guard a snowy crossing to the Patrick Cudahy plant, home of Sweet Applewood Bacon. These wig wags on CNW's Old Line were the last ones in t... (more)

A train with a string of open auto rack cars swings thru Horseshoe Curve behind five (not 4) units in 1976.