A pair of engines still lettered for Illinois Central, SD40A 6010 and SD40 6067 sandwich Illinois Central Gulf GP8 #7700 at a ballast pit North of Fulton, Kentucky.

A Utah Railway coal empty meets a loaded train with mid-train helpers at the West Switch Kyune on August 8, 1999.

Utah Railway's RUT612 local glides south through Riverton with 30 cars for Provo Yard. Continuing Utah Railway's history of rostering unusual motive power, the head end includes an OmniTrax GP38-2... (more)

A Santa Fe GP7u finds itself employed by the Utah Railway Company at the Amoco Oil Refinery north of Salt Lake City.

Columbia & Cowlitz's daily landfill train, led by SW-1500 #308, drifts downhill through Ostrander. Two months latter the Weyerhaeuser switchers, some of which had been on the property since the ea... (more)

Southbound Amtrak Train P095, the "Old Dominion," makes a short station stop at Fredericksburg, VA on July 11, 1998, led by P42DC No. 1. The City of Fredericksburg planted both Daffodils and Day ... (more)

SCL's Hamlet-New Orleans run-through train 215 ran day-after-day-after-day with solid sets of GP40s in the 1970s, but on this day a U36B has found a spot.

Santa Fe 5806 still wears the planned SPSF merger scheme as it heads East up the North track on Cajon Pass.

A pair of "torpedo-boat" GP-9R's enjoy their brief stint of mainline running on this rebuilt section of the Cowboy Line as they head East with a 7 car local East of Lusk.

We didn’t know it at the time, but on the very last weekend of Denver’s Rio Grande Ski Train, the westbound passenger train full of excited skiers ascends the Colorado Rockies at Crescent on M... (more)

VIA’s eastbound train No. 2, the “Canadian,” leaves Jasper at English, Alberta, over the Canadian National main line on September 18, 2002. Two F40PHs power the 21-car train, with No. 6441 l... (more)

Utah Railway's Valmy, NV to Wildcat, UT coal empty loads its ninth cross hopper at the Andalex Resources, Inc. loading facility about five miles southwest of Helper, Utah. This terminal opened for... (more)

In the late 1980s, the Denver & Rio Grande Western offered 14 hour piggyback service between Denver and Salt Lake City for $299. Nicknamed the 'Railblazer', an extra short train #102 is pictured c... (more)

Fifteen years ago, power working on the BNSF had a little more variety than it does today. Here, a matched trio of Burlington Northern EMDs lead a 56 car Riverbank, CA to Denver, CO trackage right... (more)