Grinding up Edelstein Hill at milepost 136 just east of Edelstein, Illinois, is Santa Fe’s mainline local led by EMD GP30 No. 2723. A total of seven locomotives are working the train; trailing u... (more)
Before the stack trains, the little Suquehanna railroad was starving and would have gone broke. Attorney and railfan Walter Rich purchased it and little-by-little he added trackage and customers.... (more)
When CP first took delivery of their large SD9043MACs in late 1998 I heard they were operating through Thunder Bay so I went north over Thanksgiving weekend and was lucky to find the class unit si... (more)
Long long ago in a world far far away, Rio Grande SD40T-2 5371 was just another 'tunnel motor' working on the D&RGW. The 5371 would become the last originally numbered and painted Rio Grande locom... (more)
Denver and Rio Grande Western’s Malta Turn is dropping through Pando, Colorado, on the way down the 3-percent grades of Tennessee Pass on July 9, 1985. The six-car train is led by a pair of EMD ... (more)