Not only is TAG 80 one of the best looking diesels at TVRM, it also has a unique history. The locomotive was one of the first GP38s ever built and served as a demonstrator for EMD before going to ... (more)

RF01 prepares to depart Fuquay-Varina with an ex-CR GP38 leading.

Ex-Conrail now Hartwell GP38 No. 1973 sits tied down in Bowersville.

A former Chessie unit looking tired.

A former Chessie unit that just came in on train 214 in glorious stealth.

Example of a "tasteful" way to reletter and renumber upon merger. Ex-Chessie units got a lot of these nice modifications, ex-SBD, not so much. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collect... (more)

The dreary spring day of April 10, 1988, is brightened up by a Burlington Northern freight approaching the junction at Plum River near Savanna, Illinois. The eastbound train is powered by BN EMD G... (more)

Former Chesapeake & Ohio GP38 3862 and former Baltimore & Ohio GP40-2 4156 rest at Raleigh Yard in Beckley West Virginia on a sunny October day. The covered shanty with a coal stove would be small... (more)

The Marietta Switcher works the tank car unloading rack at Kemira Chemicals Inc.

Before a Fairhaven transportation center was built south of downtown, Bellingham relied on these two former Great Northern structures for accessing GN, BN and later Amtrak passenger service. BN an... (more)

The grades are mostly short, but steep on the old L&N Hook and Eye. However, at 10mph a short, steep grade still gives trains a workout.

Photo by Tony Vanier, from my collection.

Bought by PC, then here, then to lease and on to BNSf. Photo by unknown, from my collection.

Amtrak GP38 723, getting some work done in the carrier's Wilmington Maintenance Facility, was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Louisville & Nashville GP38 4003 in June 1970, this... (more)

A trio of Mississippi Export geeps slowly make their way north through Moss Point, MS, bringing a 38-car northbound from the CSX interchange in Pascagoula. Paralleling Railroad St in Moss Point, t... (more)