The BNSF Town Job shoves back towards Grand Crossing and the BNSF North La Crosse Yard.

UP 3535 rolls into C&NW's Wood St. Yard off the Rockwell Line that connects the yard to the mainline west of the CNW Chicago Station. This power which will be led West by CNW 6831 will be attached... (more)

A pair of Tier 4 demonstrator units head back towards Wabtec's shops with a couple of brand new CSX locomotives undergoing break in runs on the test track.

PURCELL OK Jan 29 1978 — Santa Fe GP7 2837 and Track Geometry Scientific Testing Car 85 await the return of their crews. EMD built the unit in December 1952 and delivered it in zebra stripe pain... (more)

In Louisville yet. That was short-lived operation. Photo by R J Roll. From my collection.

This freshly repainted Conrail N20 caboose made its long-awaited debut on ME-2 after being repainted in Metuchen Yard. CR 22137 had been a tagged, rusting eyesore for a decade or more. For years t... (more)

NORMAN OK June 4 1978 — Santa Fe CF7 2633 leads train 514 as it departs to the north. EMD built this unit as F7A 312L:2 in March 1953. It was delivered in silver with a red warbonnet without an ... (more)

The SC44s used to pull the Amtrak Cascades service are owned by Washington State DOT. In previous years this train used the cooler looking 'batmobile' Talgo passenger cars, but it still sports a ... (more)

Hiawatha power for the St. Paul-Chicago segment of the Hiawatha/North Coast Hiawatha service awaits its next assignment at Minneapolis Jct., home of BN's Harrison St. roundhouse and diesel service... (more)

Feeling hot hot hot! At a scorching 2,300 degrees, a Gary Railway bottle car is pulled out of the blast furnace at the massive Gary Works steel mill.

Soo Line 6240 (1 of 54 SD39's made by EMD) leads a Lake States train out of Milwaukee, WI in May of 1987. Much has changed since this photo was taken. The Milwaukee skyline has added a building or... (more)

BN SD9 no. 6101 idles near the office on the approach to the ore docks fed by Allouez Yard. The former GN docks were the world's largest and although GN had very little mileage in Wisconsin, it wa... (more)

DGNO Garland yard

The Grand Canyon Limited, ATSF 2nd 23, is led by ATSF 4-8-4 2912 west of Vaughn New Mexico on September 21st 1947. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

241 P 17 turning in Longueville shed