Only 27 years ago?? CP 5831 leads a southbound (timetable east) freight thru Oak Creek, WI on a beautiful Fall day in October of 1998. The train is on the ex-MILW C&M Sub. This was one of my last ... (more)

The railroad served Clinton and Davenport, IA, with a connection across the Mississippi River into Rock Island and Moline, IL, via the Crescent Bridge. The 48.5 mile line was jointly owned by the... (more)

Southern Pacific train 1-BACI-T-2-05, an intermodal train which originated in Oakland CA and is headed to southern California's City of Industry (yes, that is the city's full name!), passes by the... (more)

On the first day of a journey from Los Angeles to Chicago, Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 and a trio of Dash 8-40CW diesels pull an excursion train across the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway as a treat fo... (more)

Three-year-and-seven-month-old Southern Pacific Railroad GP40-2 7608 sits in the railroad's Taylor Yard between runs. (Los Angeles, California – September 21, 1981)

DMIR 186 approaches the DMIR yard at Keenan, MN with a raw ore train in September of 1987. This train sounded as good as it looked!

Backing on to their train are CSXT GP40-2 6243 (ex-B&O 4344) and 6246 (ex-B&O 4347). Once coupled onto their cars again (after making a setout), the train will continue its westward journey. (Pa... (more)

Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751, the first 4-8-4 steam locomotive built for the Santa Fe, is rolled slowly down temporary track and out of Viaduct Park in San Bernardino, where it has resided since 1958, and ... (more)

The Santa Fe–Southern Pacific merger was an attempted corporate consolidation of two of the major railroads in the Western United States at the time: the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway an... (more)

A Santa Fe freight heads east through southern California's Santa Ana Canyon. Annoying golfers (I hope!) as it passes through the Green River Golf Course is a typical quartet of GPs pulling this ... (more)

The Chicago-Miami, City of Miami on Seaboard Air Line rails at Fort Lauderdale, Florida on March 20, 1967. Route between Chicago an Birmingham IC rails. Leaving Birmingham on Central of Georgia... (more)

Purchased in the early 1960s to replace aging passenger power, Southern Pacific's SDP45s stayed in that service after Amtrak took over operating most of America's passenger trains. But after a de... (more)

A local at the Union Pacific's Montclair Yard has 14-year-old UP GP30 726 for power. The diesel was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in March 1963, and was retired by the UP on 8/1... (more)

FRVR 4502 leads a northbound (timetable West) freight into the ex-CNW yard in North Fond du Lac, WI in July of 1989.

RS-3 and three F-Units leaving Atlanta on the Central of Georgia on a perfect winter day in 1973. Corrections are welcome as I don't know the exact location. -JL Scott