The last Maumee and Western train ever from Napoleon to Defiance waits out Christmas Eve about halfway along the 15 mile line. The MAW will cease to exist soon, the line has been purchased by Pio... (more)

The County Road 75 Bridge over the CSX Garrett Sub between Hicksville, Ohio and St. Joe, Indiana is slated for closure and demolition. Long a hangout for local teens and railfans, one group or an... (more)

A pair of SD45 helpers drift back down the hill.

Running about 10 hours behind schedule, Amtrak's westbound Desert Wind train #35 glides west between the foothills of the Oquirrh Mountains and the Great Salt Lake at Lake Point. The former Wester... (more)

CFR Forest Railway in Margina in Romania in activity at the time of the communist regime.

On September 16, 1990, a Southern Pacific MP15AC slides past a Gateway Western freight and four Chicago & North Western locomotives (2 GP38-2s and 2 SD40-2s) in West Bottoms, Kansas City.

Another view of UP Turbine 3, at Cheyenne, Wy on May 11, 1968. Do not ask me why the coupler is freshly painted white --- I do not know. But I could suspect the locomotive or the tightlock ... (more)

Lehigh Valley power gathered at Sayre, PA in May 1973. Photograph by John F. Bjorklund and cou... (more)

As a young driver dreaming about owning a new car, this Southern Pacific Auto-Pack captivated my attention. It featured a rainbow of shiny new 1978 Chevrolet Camaros and Pontiac Firebirds that had... (more)

Green Bay and Western train No. 2 is at milepost 178 at Whitehall, Wisconsin, on the pretty autumn day of October 3, 1992. The train is powered by Alco C424s Nos. 314 and 320, and RS27 No. 316.

A Utah Railway CLBTC coal empty heads east along the 1983 Thistle line change at Milepost 682 near Castilla. The original routing of both US Highway 6 and the Rio Grande mainline are below and to ... (more)

Before the UP-SP merger, one could expect to catch more than two dozen trains per day passing through Rio Grande's upper horseshoe curve east of Gilluly, Utah. Photographed a couple of weeks befor... (more)

A Utah Railway Willow Creek coal empty meets a Union Pacific swing helper tucked away in the siding at Sutro. The 9012 is former Santa Fe Caterpillar powered SD45-2 #5855.

Utah Railway's RUT309 local rumbles slowly along the future site of Salt Lake City's Gateway Mall. In the background (at left) the brick and sandstone Wilbur S. Henderson building looms on the cor... (more)

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe trackage rights manifest glides west through marshy terrain near Kenecott Copper's Garfield Smelter. The BNSF train is westbound on the former Western Pacific (UP Sh... (more)