OK-KS Oct 1977 — The last picture of a long day chasing trains from El Reno OK north yielded this night shot of Rock Island 353. Fellow railfan Zoli Vajda and I used my Braun RL915 strobe but ha... (more)

WC GP40 3017 mates up with a pair of SD45s about to tie onto a southbound freight at Shops Yard in North Fond Du Lac, WI. WC was a great railroad for watching vintage EMDs in action. The GP40s wer... (more)

A consist of BN motive power including BN GP40 3001 & a former CBQ GP30 pose behind a group of ice crystals created by water dripping and freezing from the former CB&Q steam engine water tank. At ... (more)

Somewhere eastbound as I recall.

A visit to Ryan Ballard. Thanks for the hospitality. RIP

Originally NYC>PC>CR. Photo by Tony Vanier. From my collection.

WC 3012 leads a pair of SD45s on a southbound freight at Theresa Station and is about to cross the Rock River which flows out of Theresa Marsh. The train is operating between North Fond Du Lac and... (more)

Photographer unknown, from my collection.

The Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Railroad is a 52.9-mile short-line railroad that started operations in 1908 in northern Louisiana and southern Arkansas. Here their job #100 is ready to hea... (more)

CSX 6805 is switching local industries in Kingsport Tennessee on the former Clinchfield RR. 6805 is former L&N 3009.

Illini Terminal GP40 2064 rests between assignments in Granite City.

Three NYC GP40's rolling with a general merchandise train, along the Hudson River at Spuyten Duyvil, The Bronx, New York in July 1966. The 3033 was one of fifty pre-production GP40's that the N... (more)

Much akin to what Robert Riley is doing today with the Rock Island, Terry Respondek was in the mid twenty-teens-- putting on a show with paint schemes from a gone-by railroading era. 2064's Illino... (more)

In the afternoon a westbound local rattles along the river.

It was approaching evening on July 1, 1978 when two friends and I stopped on the way home at Roseton, New York (near Newburgh) and caught this northbound with an ex Penn Central GP40, and a blue S... (more)