Back-to-back E7s #531 and #535 guide the 'South Wind' through the complex trackage at Chicago's Union Station on July 24, 1964. The every-other-day Chicago to Florida 'South Wind' drew power ... (more)

A lone Clinchfield GE U36C sits in the yard in Spartanburg, SC. In just a year from now, this unit and the 6 others that the Clinchfield took delivery of in 1971 to help ease a power shortage, wou... (more)

A former Rio Grande office building located on 5th Street near South Avenue in Grand Junction, Colorado.

An SP coal shuttle rambles along the North Fork Branch through rural Delta County east of Austin. The 44 car train, originating in Grand Junction, will load at Somerset.

Erie-built FM's, PRR class FF20 in the service rack at Columbus mated in A-B-A configuration

J1a #6403 poses for a picture at Columbus. It was likely part of the PRR motive power force defending the turf on the Sandusky coal trains v. the 11 Santa Fe 2-10-4's brought in to augment the fl... (more)

Put out of business by FREDs
Dozens of Union Pacific cabooses are stored near UP’s shop in Omaha, Nebraska, in July 1983. For most, their fate is not good…

With four tunnel motors, an SD45 and an SD50 for power, Rio Grande's ballast train 648 grinds eastward through the Salt Lake Valley with a lengthy train of smelter slag from the Midvale pit.

Rio Grande ballast train 648 takes the shorter but steeper westward main track up the Mapleton Bench on June 6, 1988.

After topping off the tanks with motion lotion at the fuel rack, overheard from the Engineer, "Did you check the air in the tires?" AT&SF SD-24 4566 is about to blast off from Belen, N.M. headed ... (more)

Rio Grande's Helper Local makes a switch move on the former Provo Canyon Branch lead at 6th South and 2nd West in Provo. Pretend for a minute that the 'Heber Creeper' route from Provo Yard was nev... (more)

Crews change at Muskogee yard office

A wintery February 27, 1993 afternoon finds Union Pacific's Los Angeles to North Platte auto train climbing the Evanston Sub at Henefer.