Looking west from 12th St, it's roughly 7pm on a summer evening as UP's YCB78 job shoves towards the Omaha World Herald dock to pull empties before spotting the loaded newsprint to the dock on Cap... (more)

A GP9, and a U-boat sit in front of the Union Pacific Omaha Shops on a quiet evening in 1980 The shop would close in 1988 when most of the work was moved to the new Jenks Shop in North Little Rock... (more)

BN #65 departs Omaha as seen from the Bancroft St. Bridge which was torn out a few years later.

A BN yard to yard transfer is returning to Gibson Yard in Omaha from Council Bluffs as it moves by UP's icehouse on the approach to the Missouri River Bridge.

A set of GP38's sit between runs at ICG's East St. Louis service track.

A classic BN commuter train is seen near Lisle.

No signs here that this is early BNSF at Greenwood, NE.

An empty Union Electric Labadie train on the Chester Sub. is headed for another load of Southern Illinois coal with an interesting U30C-SD40-GP50-B23-7 lashup. The fresh GP50 is just a few weeks o... (more)

The engineer has just pulled out on the throttle as this BNSF Northtown to KC freight crests the grade on Firth Hill.

Power for Southern Railway's Crescent sits among Amtrak power in the Ivy City engine terminal. Visible are Amtrak F40's 275, 278 (MU'ed with SDP40F 606), and 285, Southern Railway 6910, and a stor... (more)

The new face of Amtrak on the NEC in the late 1970's is seen here with an E60 hauling Amfleet thru Elizabeth, NJ.

A Long Island RR C420 sits on a train in front of the Oyster Bay Station shortly before departure for Jamaica. Looking on is a nice collection of dated cars including two VW Beetles and a Karmann... (more)

This view at Woodbine shows the 7023 & 8033 on another empty coal train. SD50/60's and Dash 8's were the state of the art power on these trains for some 8 years until the first Dash 9's and C44AC'... (more)

Yet another eastbound Santa Fe freight climbs out of Abo Canyon with a nice mix of power.

My only time at Abo and Raton was in 1992 on the heels of chasing ATSF 3751 from KC to Alberquerque and riding a C&TS photo freight. A morning walk in from the Highway 60 overpass near Scholle wa... (more)