A pair of 60Ms leading a 60 car American President Lines stacker are running No.2 track to get around lower priority traffic. At this time there was a 20 mile segment of CTC west of Fremont, NE, o... (more)

A westbound double-stack outfit with an SD50 and SD60 for leaders is climbing the grade at the 2454/2455 signals on the shelf of the mountain near Allegrippus and only a few miles from the summit ... (more)

The photographer, standing atop the old Route 66 overpass, is about to experience the warm exhaust from four units hitting their stride between Gallup and the Arizona line. This was still current ... (more)

Sailing through the crossover at Farr, NE, thirty miles east of North Platte, symbol MKSNP out of Kansas City approaches the terminal on a July afternoon. The trailing non-dynamic brake SD40-2s of... (more)

Westbound UP 7283 glides down the Boyer River valley near Woodbine, IA on an August afternoon in the Heartland.

BNSF 7519 is clawing its path through the steep grades and nearly constant curvature of Tehachapi Pass as the southbound manifest destined for Barstow negotiates the short single track segment bet... (more)

BNSF 4042 leads a six-pack of power with a northbound manifest through the horseshoe curve at Caliente, CA. At this date it was nearly the end for the SP-era searchlight signals.

CR 6080 leads an SD50 and SD40-2 into Horseshoe Curve on an early May afternoon. Scanned from a print.

BNSF 752 leads a southbound intermodal train through Tehachapi loop an into the single track segment between Walong and Marcel that has since been double-tracked.

Three GEs bring a westbound double-stack through the crossover at McCartys, NM. Somewhat strange is that second motor - UP 6219 - an ex-SP AC4400CW that has somehow found itself out on the Gallup ... (more)

One reason I like the BN Grinstein green color is its similarity to Pennsy's Brunswick green. Although the BN color is more overtly green, in certain light it can appear black - as did PRR's "... (more)

Wide cab SD60M No. 9280 comes rolling down the main through Ashland, NE as a standard cab SD60 sits on the siding with a work train. The Oakway (EMD leasing) SD60s were slowly being relegated to m... (more)

A pair of Dash9s and an SD40-2 round the bend approaching Julesburg, CO with an eastbound Z train.

Conrail's busy Chicago Line was ex-NYC territory with long stretches of tangent track and minimal grade. A pair of GP40s highball a westbound trailvan through Edgerton, OH - not far from the India... (more)

Byers Canyon on the Colorado River is one of the first of many the river fortuitously carved for the fledgling Denver and Salt Lake and Denver and Rio Grande railroads. A spring day finds UP 6852 ... (more)