At the small yard a couple of local geeps rest and watch the new kids still in their old paint & numbers wheeling a a southbound merchandiser.
Conrail OI-16 rolls to a stop at CP Ron. The conductor will hop off the train here in preparation to set off cars in Port Reading Yard. It was good to see former EL SD45-2s still assigned to thi... (more)
A northbound manifest freight passes through the remote community of Lost Cove, NC as it begins to make its assault up the Famous Blue Ridge loops toward the top at Altapass, NC. and eventually Er... (more)
The day gas rolls east over the Flathead River east of Paradise on it's way back to Missoula over the shorter 10th Subdivision.
A northbound manifest freight with SCL power just outside of Bostic, NC. 35mm slide from my collection with no photographer listed.
Extended D/B and high headlight are dead giveaways that this is an ex-CRR unit. Train behind is a daily train 466 on the Winston Salem Southbound which mixed power from the two competitors.
MRL's Laurel, MT to Missoula, MT manifest crawls down Bozeman Pass and into town with a trio of veteran EMD's.
Seaboard Coast Line SD45-2 #2047, leading Frisco connection train #333 from East Thomas Yard in Birmingham, Alabama. #2047 would become Seaboard System #2047, and later SBD #8952, and even later ... (more)
A Santa Fe westbound emerges from the passing track at Goffs, California on April 9, 1993.
a westbound Santa Fe hotshot was approaching Daggett, CA, station, junction of UP's old LA and Salt Lake route into the Los Angeles area
It's so close....., but bad clone tool, evil clone tool!
The early years of the Burlington Northern & Santa Fe merger brought together wildly colorful power combos. Here an SD45-2 and two SD40-2s lead 108 coil steel empties through Castle Gate on Oct. 6... (more)
A short 943 train crosses the long trestle between Orwood and Middle River in light morning fog.
