BNSF 6610 leads a grain train west out of a tunnel located between Hood and Cook along the Columbia River. At this point, the foliage has converted from arid terrain to Cascade rain forest conditi... (more)

BNSF 4680 leads a westbound grain train out of a short curved tunnel on the east end of Lyle. It will face four more tunnels after crossing a causeway just west of town.

BNSF 6620 and 6623 handle DPU duties on a westbound grain train cruising along the Columbia River just west of Lyle, WA. The train is going through a series of four tunnels cut into the basalt cli... (more)

CNW 934 and 932 idle away at Altoona, WI in March 1968, only a month or so after delivery to the railroad. The GE U30Cs numbered 930-936 and were a treat to see on the EMD dominated railroad, at l... (more)

Orphaned by the Milwaukee Road out in the Puget Sound Region when service was cut on March 15, 1980, SW1 no. 878 left Milwaukee's roster and was sold to Weyerhaeuser Co. This photo was taken 4 mon... (more)

MILW 204 and mates are ready for action at Pigs Eye Yard, St. Paul, MN in October 1982. By this time they no longer plied the West Coast extension to Tacoma, WA.

Montana Western's gas-electric doodlebug was on display at the Mid-Continental Railway Museum in August 1973. The nicely restored unit had been loaned to EMD for their 50th anniversary open house ... (more)

CB&Q Mikado no. 4960 was not operable, but on display at the Mid-Continental Railway Museum at North Freedom, WI. The locomotive would later end up in Arizona hauling tourists to the south rim of ... (more)

CNW 1385, an R-1 4-6-0, was nicely restored and in operating condition at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum back in August 1973.

BNSF 7643 and an SD70MAC cruise by the Mississippi River lock and dam at Alma on the "wrong" main with a stack train bound for Chicago. Maintenance crews were doing work up the line at N... (more)

BNSF 3987 rolls a grain train east along the Flathead River between Paradise and Perma, MT on NP's original mainline through Dixon, MT. This line still provides Montana Rail Link a double track ro... (more)

A westbound BNSF grain train is stopped and poses for a photo near Kootenai Falls west of Libby, MT on a beautiful October afternoon on Great Northern's former mainline.

DBGX 6634, initials of De Bruce Grain Co. has been handling switching duties at Gavilon Grain Co., Cozad, NE since at least the summer of 2011. The elevator is located next to UP's mainline. The l... (more)

MRL GP9 no. 109 mates up with SD45 346 on the local turn from Helena to Townsend and back. The train will run around their cars and head back north to Helena with the SD45 on the point.

Wisconsin Great Northern features a pair of Wabash painted F units at their Trego facility. Here the 1950 is parked by their office/store/depot with no. 1951.