A quartet of diesels sits in Rock Island’s yard in Amarillo: Two GP40s, a U25B and an U28B. RI GP40 4709 as built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in April 1970. After the fall of th... (more)

Why I liked KCS cabeese. This homemade beast is a marvel of improvisation. I have a shot of another that had spoked wheels and trucks from a WWII troop car! The trucks on this one are not norma... (more)

MILW 695B & A team up at the engine facilities at Pigs Eye Yard, St. Paul. They were regularly assigned to hump duties at this time. The TR4 A/B team were built in January 1951.

CNW 889 slows to leave the eastbound main at the Altoona depot and will park its train in a siding to the right of the switch engine which is waiting on the eastbound main to complete switching an... (more)

CNW 889 tops the grade up from the Eau Claire River as it arrives in Altoona with an eastbound freight. The track going left from the switch serves the TOFC ramp. The train will be switched and ch... (more)

MILW 971 arrives on the interchange/drill track at Eau Claire Tower with cars to be switched into Uniroyal Tire Co. in the background. A westbound CNW freight is about to clear the MILW/SOO diamon... (more)

In the low red sun of a late midwinter day in a most eventful year, this unit waits for a signal to cross the KCS main. Photo by Jim (that's him) Satterwhite. From my collection.

Couldn't let this one go unremarked. I've always wondered about the purpose of that little door in this 1957-58 built cab. Photo by Gary Zeitler. From my collection.

Photo by Mike Dolenski, from my collection.

My favorite form of the GP35, medium tank, dynamic brakes, Alco trucks. This one started out as GM&O then the ICC destroyed competitive rail transportation in the lower Mississippi valley. Photo... (more)

Photo by Tony Vanier, from my collection.

Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México began purchasing Alco RS-11 locomotives in April 1951, with both high short-hoods and low short-hoods (often called "noses"). In 1963 these orders sh... (more)

Switching Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's A Yard in San Bernardino CA in the 1940s is ATSF 0-8-0 614. Built as AT&SF 2-8-0 614 by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1901, the engine was rebuilt int... (more)

A TP&W westbound transfer sports the NYC-inspired "lightning stripe" paint scheme preferred by the first TP&W ownership following the 1989 sale by the Santa Fe.

At the CSX shops for some work. Former L&N unit.