Ridin’ to a switch
The conductor of Copper Basin Railway OT-1 rides the steps of GP39 No. 505 to a switch while running around their ore train at the ASARCO dumper in Hayden, Arizona,... (more)

The head end crew is on board and the three U33C's (756-755-754) soon will leave Whitehall Yard for Rouses Point. WR-1 and RW-6 were the mainline freights between Wilkes Barre, PA and Rouses Point... (more)

Early on a fall morning, a 5899 train headed for Richmond, CA, meets an eastbound in the hole at Glen Frazer. The conductor on the rear platform of his caboose can clearly hear the 589 approaching... (more)

The head end crew of the Canadian has given the okay to a passing freight train on Kicking Horse Pass and will soon be back on board their train to continue into Lake Louise station and on to Banf... (more)

A westbound rolls past Willow Creek tower on the Michigan Central Porter Branch in 1978.

A CP crew member from a westbound freight led by CP 5825 is ready to inspect the eastbound freight led by CP 5809 at Nicomen siding east of Hope, BC on CP's mainline through the Fraser Canyon. the... (more)

Frisco's 1522 arrives in Milner Ga. during the 1994 NRHS convention.

Orders at Porter. The conductor receives his orders as his train rolls west through Porter Junction in 1977.

In a scene that is only a memory, the engineer on EJ&E 668 is seen grabbing his train orders while moving at track speed across the diamonds in Griffith. Tom Golden photo.

A WNYP crew shuffles some power at the locomotive shop in Olean, NY. The M&E heritage of WNYP 431 is more than obvious, and its red paint has held up well enough over the past few decades. WNYP ... (more)

A familiar site outside Union Station. This unit can be seen shuffling around Metra cars seemingly nonstop before every afternoon rush hour.

ONCF DH-363 leads a mixed "passenger & freight" to Taourirt, daily business in the desert area in eastern Morocco.

NORMAN OK January 1975 -- The races on. Santa Fe GP38 3544 passes University of Oklahoma long distance runners on the east side of the OU Duck Pond area. The eastbound (compass north) train is app... (more)

After years of deferred maintenance, Milwaukee Road had to finally replace the first of three diamonds near Eau Claire Tower. This diamond was owned by MILW and served three purposes. First it was... (more)

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