Pittsburgh & Lake Erie passenger GP7 1500 rolls south from McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. The brakeman on the front platform doesn’t appear to be in a passenger uniform.

PURCELL OK May 31 1985 -- The engineer of AT&SF 8082 snags his orders. The train is traveling west (compass south). I must have viewed this scene hundreds of times but only rarely thought to photo... (more)

This Railway worker lead the train by walky talky since...5 milles/8 kilometers from the SNIM Port Mineralier ! It's a EMD GPL15 pushing fews different cars at the back to a small steal industry y... (more)

Union Pacific EMD F9(A) 535, and 522B in Spokane, Washington. Both units were sold to Rock Island in 2/72 and renumbered as shown: 535-RI 4165, 522B-RI 4103. No photographer name on slide.

Extra 131 east rolls by a westbound extra at Beverly, WA on August 27, 1978. About a year and a half before Milwaukee's transcontinental demise, the railroad was fairly busy with about 6 trains a ... (more)

No safety vests were required on a hot summer day - or any day - back in 1974. One of the few RS-1s to get orange and white leads two unrepainted Alcos as they put together a train for the Prattv... (more)

On September 22, 1997, the ritual of passing up NORAC Form D on Conrail's Harrisburg Line was nearing the end of its necessity as CTC was just a few short years away. The hooping up of orders req... (more)

The crew of an eastbound grain train gives a roll-by to a westbound manifest on the west side of Spokane, Wash.

Southbound train departing Erwin, TN during the summer of 1986.

Shop mechanics perform a sustained load test on SD24 No. 4511. They had the prime mover running full-out for at least a half an hour. Honestly, I don't know how they could hear each other, the sou... (more)

GM&O (and later ICG) depended on RS-1s for about 30 years, from the start of deliveries in 1945, until ICG finally pulled the plug in late 1975 and replaced the Alcos with a flood of geeps. In Mo... (more)

After a hard day out on the line the two Mallets are resting in the warm evening sun in the Asmara shed.

Next to GP38s (and GP38-2s) U23Bs were the most common power of L&N run-through trains that began using the WofA in 1973. On this day, 2739 fronted a set that included another U23B, two GP30s an... (more)

The Ice Castle: Youngstown's tallest building, Stambaugh Stadium, the home of the four time NCAA I-AA football national champion Youngstown State University Penguins looms in the background... (more)

A lot of material at the baggage car at the Spencer Whistle Stop. At this place many passengers leave the train for trekking, walking or riverrafting