A pair of helpers, or snappers, are coupled ahead of the SD60I road power on RR-261 - a westbound roadrailer with 57 trailers mounted on bogies. The train is moving up the 1.8% grade on the east s... (more)

Climbing up the western side of the Tehachapi Mountains is Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Highest Priority TOFC/COFC train 7-991-07, 300-or-so miles into its journey from northern California... (more)

It's 8:25am on a Saturday morning as CR 6080 and SD60M 5527 lead an eastbound coal train into the rising sun. Although inactive since the mid-1980s, the 1899 vintage interlocking tower still remai... (more)

The Mississippi River bluffs make a fine backdrop for BN 6785 as it leads a southbound (timetable east) grain train thru La Crosse, WI in January of 1993.

CNW 8672 and 8606 lead a 113 car Chicago-Roper manifest through Missouri Valley, IA on an October afternoon. Fuji Sensia.

Southern Pacific Railroad SDP45 3207 was one of three SP SDP45s that received the "Kodachrome" paint scheme for the proposed Southern Pacific Santa Fe merger a few years earlier. The en... (more)

Good lookin' SD75M No. 226 and an SD40-2 hustle eastbound vans past CA Jct., MO on a September morning. Not sure how many decades the classic Santa Fe station sign has existed, but they were a fun... (more)

Too bad we missed these new. Photographer unknown. From my collection.

A red sun in the west lights this nicely painted unit at the wash rack. We were so happy to be able to catch this great fallen flag which we knew was already endangered. Note the old style singl... (more)

A southbound mixed freight. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

UP 3772 leads a quartet of SD40-2s into Sheffield interlocking in Kansas City, MO. The southbound grain train is about to cross the Kansas City Terminal Rwy. where there seemed to be a continual p... (more)

The C36-7 were delivered in Union Pacific paint but Missouri Pacific markings. This was to be an epic train chase with my dad and brother that I will never forget. Unfortunately this would be the ... (more)

Sitting in the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's diesel facility in Barstow are ATSF RSD-15 9827 (ex-ATSF 827), SD24 4538 (ex-ATSF 938) and ATSF RCE 25 (a radio control helper built from ATSF F... (more)

Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

BN 6923 is mated with a pair of B30-7Bs as they lift an eastbound intermodal train up the grade over the Pine Ridge near Crawford, NE.