For some reason train #65 out of Chicago would get alot of the 1st trips for the new power. Back on March 1996, train 65 blast thru Mount Pleasant with a pair of new SD75's heading for Lincoln, NE... (more)

Union Pacific's Denver to Salt Lake City UPS train emerges from the deep shadows of Spanish Fork Canyon approaching Gomex on September 2, 2000.

An westbound passes through Afton Canyon in the morning.

Only a little over a month after it rolled out of the GE assembly plant in Erie, Conrail C39-8 6009 leads an eastbound manifest at Riverside, just west of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Only Conrail and... (more)

New Southern Pacific GE C44-9W No. 8194 leads a southbound Wisconsin Central taconite ore train up Byron Hill at Byron, Wisconsin, on February 26, 1995. Trailing No. 8194 is an eclectic trio of EM... (more)

Hard to believe that 19 years ago these dash 9's were 1st being delivered. Here train #11 has 2 maiden voyage H1 dash 9's for the trip west out of Chicago. The train is seen here passing thru East... (more)

A newer GE leads a loaded crude oil train upgrade out of the Lake Superior basin on former C&NW rails, now part of CN's busy Superior Subdivision.

Still on friction-bearing shop trucks, a new Amtrak Superliner is awaiting movement around the Pullman Standard shop complex in Hammond. These cars were the last Pullman Standard-produced equipme... (more)

New EMD SD70ACe-Tier4 at Mexico City with a Ferromex GE C30-7.

Two sets of new GE C44-9W units await coal train assignments out in Provo, Utah on Feb. 10, 1995.

One of Conrail's new SD50s has been delivered to the Indiana Harbor Belt's Blue Island Yard and is working its way toward its outbound train. Tom Golden photo.

Passing the old signals on the way to Jacksonville. Two different eras of technology are shown. One on the way in and the other on the way out.

Brand new CSXT 7909 passes the railfan perch on the Sand Patch Grade near Glencoe, PA in June of 1993.

New GE ET44AH No. 2672 is a distributed power unit on UP's North Platte to West Colton manifest freight at North Yard in Salt Lake City on Sept. 25, 2016.

UP's Fresno to West Colton train exits Canyon siding with a fresh tier4 leader after meeting a northbound empty rail train.