GMD F7A(u) #9150-9179 (rebuilt 1972-1974) all retired by 1989.

The yellow flags on the side of the F9s is a nice touch but it is Old Glory that takes center stage as the final LTV Steel Mining Company mainline ore train departs for the dock at Taconite Harbor... (more)

Ex-CN F3A 9000 along with ex-CN/NAR GMD1m 1179 and ex-Altasteel/Stelco GE 80T 52 parked at CN's Walker Yard. CN 1179 was built in 1959 as Northern Alberta Railway 302. These locomotives are curren... (more)

RF&P F's wait for another train to lead, and a C&O geep is seen far right, in this scene from the ready tracks at Pot Yard, once one of the busiest on the east coast. From the south, it was not u... (more)

Both EL and N&W power were mingling at the Joint Bison yard in Buffalo

Rock Island E8A handles 9 "capone" commuter coaches with ease on an evening rush-hour train departing downtown Chicago.

EMD test set on Santa Fe Trinidad

Northbound E&LS train to Channing breaks through the thick fog with the ex-Reserve Mining SD9s #1221 & 1224.

Even in 1984 this was a rare lashup. Five first-generation SDs and GPs pulling a long mixed freight. The engine music was terrific!

Union Station location now the home of the Houston Astros, and Minute Maid baseball field, formerly Enron Stadium. Much history in this photo that is now gone by.

Clinchfield F7 802 sits in the L&N yard in Loyall, KY. L&N trains that held trackage rights over the Clinchfield would sometimes have Clinchfield power attached to them, and the power would find i... (more)

Santa Fe 2nd #17, the EL CAPITAN, accelerates out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, on August 27, 1968. FP45s 101-107 are powering the streamliner this day. The train is following 1st 17, the SUPER CHIE... (more)

The Golden State Ltd. is on borrowed time but looking sharp as it turns into downtown Davenport off the Golden State main, approaching Rockingham Rd. John was in Davenport for a 3-week training a... (more)

CP 4107 leads a beautiful A-B-A set on the Royal Canadian Pacific, as the train travels north on the Windermere Sub. If this area looks familiar, that is because John Ryan made this location famou... (more)