EL Alco C425 no. 2456 is in the company of an Amtrak E unit at Burlington Northern's Interbay roundhouse in Seattle, WA. The Alco was one of several sold by Conrail to British Columbia Railway aft... (more)

CP 5831 and a mix of GMD and MLW power are lined up for servicing at Coquitlam Yard, east of Vancouver, BC before taking their next assignments. At this time the "candy cane" version of ... (more)

CP 8612, assigned to the Mission City Turn out of Coquitlam Yard, handles switching of a cedar shake mill at Ruskin, BC on its return west from Mission City. This scheme was modified in the early ... (more)

BN 6928 rolls a freight westbound below Mt. Index near Gold Bar, WA on its way to Everett and Seattle, WA from Wenatchee. The train is descending the last of the grade down Stevens Pass and will b... (more)

Santa Fe SD75M no. 227 leads a Q Train out of Corwith Yard near Chicago with the help of a mix of Santa Fe and BN power just days after the official marriage of the two railroad systems.

BNSF 1038 and three mates make good time climbing Trinidad Loop out of the Columbia River Basin with an eastbound Z train. About 30 minutes out of Wenatchee, WA, the train is headed to Spokane and... (more)

BN 7082 leads an intermodal train through Rochelle past the depot less than a month after the BN-ATSF merger. The unit appears to have sustained minor front end damage at some point recently. It ... (more)

BN 9802, a former NP passenger F9A, leads the Mainstreeter eastbound into the former Minneapolis GN station. The train was 6 months away from disappearing under the creation of Amtrak. The train i... (more)

Two years into the BN merger, X-CB&Q GP30, BN 2252 still shows off its Chinese Red color scheme, complementing the green of other nearby power at the X-GN Harrison St. roundhouse in Minneapolis, M... (more)

It did not take long to re-number GN 590 to BN 6117. Only about 3 months after the merger the unit is waiting at Brook Park, MN on the Brook Park turn out of St. Cloud, MN for its interchange of t... (more)

Republic Steel EMD switchers work their way around the steel mill in Cleveland, Ohio in September 1981. A molten metal car is in the foreground.

Based on looking at a CNW diesel roster, this odd ball unit started out as a 6 axle Baldwin road switcher about 1951. It was re-engined be EMD in the late 50s, receiving what appears to be a GP18 ... (more)

Former NP SW1200, BN 156 is paired up with an X-GN switcher at Everett's Delta Yard on a spring-like day in February 1975. It took BN until 1980 to get everything repainted, and then they acquired... (more)

13 month old BN was still pretty colorful as shown here with an eastbound "hotshot" leaving St. Paul at Dayton's Bluff on trackage shared with Milwaukee Road, Rock Island and Chicago & N... (more)

SD18 856 mates up with an SD38 and SD38-2 at the Albion, PA locomotive facility. The unit looks pretty original, but has newer class lights and also sports a double windshield rather than the orig... (more)