Union Pacific E8A 931 and two B-Units lead train 103, the westbound City of Los Angeles, as it makes its final station stop, at the railroad's East Los Angeles station, before ending its tr... (more)

On a beautiful Montana morning, MRL 392 confronts the rising sun as it cants to the sharp curve at the west end of the old Austin siding. The power set includes an ex-SP and MRL SD45 and a pair of... (more)

DMIR 186 (rebuilt as a SD-M from a SD18) brings a loaded ore train across the Whiteface River near Kelsey, MN in September of 1987. This unit was saved and currently resides at a grain elevator in... (more)

Amidst the fall foliage this train looks rather drab as it holds short of the junction with the Dry Fork line. It may use that line to reach Iaeger or it may proceed further west on the Clinch Va... (more)

Approximately at the VA/WV state line an SD50 is at the end of a string of power shoving on the rear of a large coal train. Interesting N&W had switched to short hood forward not long before the ... (more)

LMX 8562 leads a BN SD40-2 with a train full of eyesores northbound across the UP diamonds in Fremont, NE. The tank car is sitting on the interchange track between one-time C&NW and BN. There used... (more)

Moving at track speed the Wabash Cannon Ball rushed through Litchfield, Illinois on May 04, 1955. E-8 #1005 crosses the CB&Q tracks on its way to St. Louis with an all heavy-weight consist. Phot... (more)

Helpers were usually added to trains at Farm or at Flat Top Yard, but the grade stiffened here and they really had to put "out their back into it" from here to the top of the grade in d... (more)

As if showing the newbies around, veteran ex N&W unit leads two new GP59s at the head of an intermodal train pulling the grade after crossing the Green River.

A westbound covered hopper train is heeling into the curve on the mainline as it heads through the many curves, hills and hollers that lead to Williamson.

Back before PSR, when this was a vibrant through route a former N&W celebrity throttles up to conquer the famous loops to the east. I will all end with SER, Super Efficient Railroading, in which ... (more)

Just north of the little hamlet double track begins even to this day. Here a northbound ballast train roars by at this favorite site. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

West of Marion there is a short stretch of track which has to dodge sink holes by tiptoeing along the crags, resulting in "squiggles" which slow trains down as they pull the short grade ... (more)

Three DC motors haul an eastbound coal train beginning its trip along the Sandhills Sub several miles east of Alliance. Fuji Astia.

“They Don't Build 'Em Like That Anymore”
E. Francis Baldwin, B&O’s principal architect, designed the railroad’s third Oakland station (1884), which opened for business in 1885. ... (more)