Train no. 2, the Canadian, starts its long journey across Canada to Toronto and Montreal as it departs the station on the waterfront in Vancouver, BC. Today FP9 1412 and an FP7 will handle the dut... (more)

A grab shot in Green Bay captured a vintage FM H-16-66 handling switching chores as it was about to cross a street at the south end of the yard at North Green Bay. The vintage Loewy designed unit ... (more)

Heritage I Dash 9 no. 1095 and mate bask in the winter sun on a relatively snowless day at BNSF's Corwith Yard in Chicago, IL in the company of Santa Fe EMDs.

Classic Santa Fe caboose no. 999363 flies past the Carrollton, MO station on an eastbound intermodal hotshot on Santa Fe's busy double track mainline between Kansas City and Chicago during the fin... (more)

CR 3275 rolls past the Santa Fe depot at Ft. Madison, IA with not intermodal traffic on its way west from the Streator, IL run through connection to Kansas City and California. The CR GP40s were a... (more)

CR 3268 leads an eastbound freight out of Ft. Madison, IA, passing the old fort and Santa Fe northern no. 2913 along the way. It will cross the Mississippi and race east across Illinois to Streato... (more)

Santa Fe GP20 no. 3045 is reduced to switching chores at Ft. Madison, IA in June 1986. A crew goes to work at the small yard near the depot.

Santa Fe GP20 no. 3157 sports the yellow warbonnet scheme on an icy January day at Corwith Yard in Chicago. Dress blue units were certainly still viewable at this time as well.

Santa Fe 306C heads up a cluster of F units for the Super Chief at Archer Avenue in Chicago. As seen to the left this is the early Amtrak era, and some of the former Santa Fe passenger cars sport ... (more)

Santa Fe power is gathered at Richmond, CA on Pearl Harbor Day 1985. SD45 5311 shares space with GP35 2887 and another GP35. The latter GP35 sports snow shields and flare shields on the roof to li... (more)

Santa Fe GP20s nos. 3158 and 3148 pose at Corwith Yard in January 1976. The "Dress Blue" road switcher scheme was certainly handsome and the GP20s would have been among the first units d... (more)

Santa Fe GP9U no. 2246 is coupled to its switching slug at Corwith Yard. The origin of this slug is unknown to me, other than it appears to be a former EMD switcher. The 2246 was built as ATSF 734... (more)

Santa Fe GP39-2 no. 3663 poses for a portrait on an icy January day at Corwith Yard, Chicago. During this period one could enjoy the bright yellow/blue warbonnet color scheme operating with a numb... (more)

Santa Fe no. 6607 shows off her relatively new paint scheme on the point of a freight at Joliet, IL. A U30CG stolen from passenger service trails.

A lo-boy semi bottomed out on a crossing west of Gold Bar, got stuck and got hit, resulting in a derailment. Here BN GP30 no. 2226 assists the wrecking crew on the work train assigned to undo the ... (more)