One of the first uses of diesel-electric motive power on the south end of the L&N's Cumberland Valley Division in freight service was the RS-3s working the Norton Local out of Loyall, KY to Norton... (more)

Trona DT6-6-2000 51 and AS-616 52 idle outside the shops at Trona, California, November 7, 1970.

At the fork in the ATSF mainline where one leads to Topeka and the other to Ottawa, two trains collided and sideswiped between Christmas and New Years Day 1967. Soap powder anyone... it really ... (more)

This was called a yard cleaner.... in BN's former Rice Yard, Denver. Cough, cough, wheeze; the operator even stands outside. The area is now Elitchs amusement park.

In a rare scene from the early days of color photography, Southern Ps-class Pacific 1244 is shown at the roundhouse at Savannah, Georgia in 1938. The 1910 Baldwin is all spiffed up in green, silve... (more)

The last bit of daylight catches 8 Burlington Northern SD40-2's as they head East over an inlet of Lake Pend Oreille.

The boy at right probably still remembers how the ATSF unloads a ballast tamper from a flat car if no crane is available. With the work train int he background dumping ballast, the tamper has its... (more)

On December 16, 1963, Santa Fe Train No. 2, the eastbound SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF struck a cattle truck just west of Clovis, New Mexico, derailing five F-units and 10 cars. Two days later, on a cloudy... (more)

A westbound Conrail freight led by a Penn Central Geep, Reading U-Boat, and Erie Lackawanna U-Boat is seen traversing the Indiana Harbor Belt mainline as it approaches Cal Park Interlocking. Tom ... (more)

On a chilly late March morning NS C40-9W #9056 eases its train down from Horseshoe Curve and approaches the western edge of Altoona. During our travels to Altoona to cover the NS Heritage units w... (more)

A westbound Canadian National intermodal train approaches Jasper, Alberta, at English on September 19, 2002. On the point is EMD SD50F No. 5418; CN had 60 of these full-cowl machines built in 1985... (more)

Headed back to the Vail reload for another load of Weyerhaeuser logs for export a Chehalis Western train of empty log bunks heads south near Fredrickson, WA over former Milwaukee Road trackage.

The Slocan Local makes its way up the Slocan River valley to its namesake town of Slocan City in the West Kootenay region with 8 empty bulkhead flat cars for loading at the Slocan lumber mill. Th... (more)

Engr. R.R. Conway explains the significance of his sharp dressed engine and passenger train to a local. The Northwoods Explorer, having traversed serveral forgotten (and some now abandon) rail li... (more)

On February 18, 1970, an eastbound Santa Fe freight struck the caboose of a Union Pacific local at a crossing in Fullerton, California. The UP conductor was fatally injured. The UP caboose was cut... (more)