Heavy switcher #244 grabs some nice backlight on a hazy August day enroute to it's assignment amongst the blooming Virginia thistle.

EJ&E SD38-2 663 passes a memorial for somebody who was hit here several years ago.

A pair of new SDP40F's pause at Chicago. To see the entire collection of red noses, pointless arrows, and other equipment from this day of fanning, click on the Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: EMD SDP40F
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 600
Train ID: light power
Photo Date: May 25, 1974

This set of light power is moving away from the camera. JU Tower is behind the photographer. For the companion view, click more)

September 1970 saw Alcos working the slope in helper service, a C636 and C630 mate drift by. That same month also saw the debut of Monday Night Football, with Frank, Don, and Howard. The Centuri... (more)

The NRHS special has run, and the power makes a move out in the street to back around it's train.

Fullfilling it's design for branchline service duties, BL2 #54 has pulled away from it's train in the backstreets of Honesdale after pulling a NRHS excursion to Lackawaxen.

Moving away from the photographer, DL 4118 & sisters get ready to duck into the east portal at Nay Aug Park after working the NRHS Special to the Delaware Water Gap.

C&IM SD38-2 71, SD9 54 and SD18s 61 and 60 head back through Petersburg light to pick-up the remaining half of their coals loads. Just as back in the steam days of the C&IM, doubling Petersburg H... (more)

Light power for Rices Point rolls under Highway 2 in Duluth on a pleasant spring day.

#28015 is standard-guage, here's a view going away. For more color views of this trip, click here

A heavy early spring snow blankets northern Illinois as five light units approach the junction of the Galesburg main and the Minneapolis main. Cowl-bodied F45 6603 seems a natural to be leading t... (more)

Power moves past to it's train. For more color views of this trip, click here

I was in Minneapolis for 6 days on business and I never saw the sun due to a combination of work and miserable weather, mostly freezing rain, but was able to snap this shot of two Soo GP38-2s alon... (more)

The conductor has just left the cab to dismount and throw a switch for a reverse move so they can pick up grain cars on the CSX siding at East Hamler.