The roundhouse at Conrail’s Conway Yard is mostly empty, but the outside turntable tracks are teeming with six-axle Alco Centuries assigned to drag freight service. Colors of the Lehigh Valley, Re... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at the Baldwin Locomotive Works and he would give my father different steam locomotive builder's cards when my father would visit ... (more)

Built in 1927, SN 661 descends the 4.6% grade into Oakland. Kenneth Clyde Jenkins photo from the collection of Robert Campbell, Sr.

Q317-23 pulls onto the approach to the Little Kanawha River bridge as the Belpre Industrial Parkersburg Railroad transfer job leaves the Low Yard to go back to the High Yard.

Go For Launch One of the many loads on the rocket booster train cruises down the mainline in south Georgia. Neat how they added the climate control and slack sensor mechanisms to the car w... (more)

DRGW 3082 leads an eastbound manifest uphill into Belden siding. A downhill helper set waits on the track along the Eagle Mine. View from Highway 24 high above.

Tom Golden photo.

A westbound Southern Pacific piggyback train passes Redwood Jct. Tower sometime in the 1950s. This image on SP's San Francisco Subdivision was taken by the late John E. Shaw, Jr.

On a typically gloomy spring day in Wisconsin on March 30, 1985, Glen Monhart’s Charleston & Western Carolina F7 No. 901 does some freight duties during car clean up at the end of operations for s... (more)

An Alco takes a spin on the former Rock Island open pit turntable in Iowa Interstate's Council Bluffs yard. The turntable is still there today, but is now surrounded by development of IAIS's inter... (more)

An F9 ABBA helper set will assist a freight on its climb to Marias Pass.

A quartet of GP9's shunting at Grand Forks.

Renumbered, but not repainted, a small group of former GN and Burlington power enjoy some summer sunlight at the former Great Northern roundhouse facilities. As the railroad completed revising Nor... (more)

The NS track crew has cleared up by the old Railroad House Hotel in Lebanon, as the Lackawanna Heritage Unit heads west

An eastbound Southern Pacific manifest freight grinds uphill climbing Tennessee Pass and crosses the Eagle River approaching Pando, Colorado, on August 2, 1996. Not only does the train have to fig... (more)