UP 8516 rolls west with a covered hopper train on the mainline a few miles east of Ogallala, NE. This train appeared to be an empty soda ash train headed to western Wyoming.

Minnesota Southern Geeps 1365 and 1379 pair up to switch a train together at Worthington, MN along side UP's main track through town. MSWY 1365 is a late phase GP9 originally built in July 1959 fo... (more)

Soo Line SW1200 no. 324 handles switching duties at Irvine Yard in Chippewa Falls, WI on a cool January 1973 afternoon. Delivered in black with duluxe gold striping, the unit fits well into the sn... (more)

IC 8075, a Paducah rebuilt GP10 featuring frog eye headlights, a Mars light, ox yoke air filters and quad exhaust stacks leads a freight south out of Markham Yard through Homewood, IL. It is fitti... (more)

One of CP Rail's famous yellow wide vision cabooses brings up the rear of a westbound freight as it rolls by the speeder shed and station in a snow storm on (US) Presidents Day weekend in February... (more)

The head end crew of the Canadian has given the okay to a passing freight train on Kicking Horse Pass and will soon be back on board their train to continue into Lake Louise station and on to Banf... (more)

Milwaukee Road FM switcher 731 idles with a pair of F7s at Janesville, WI in September 1972. This unit features the steam locomotive inspired cab roof extension over the end of the cab as well as ... (more)

Milwaukee Road received some of the earliest EMD SD40-2s after foregoing SD40s in favor of a handful of SD45s. Originally delivered in the 3000 series they were the last engine model delivered wit... (more)

UP 5942 is the DPU on a westbound empty coal train rolling through Odessa not long before sunset. An easttbound freight waits its turn to use the crossovers.

PVGX 471, a former Belt Railway of Chicago GP9 looks good as new parked at the Peavey Elevator at Kearney, NE where it handles switching chores when needed.

MJRX 1021 makes a fine grain elevator switcher at the large elevator along the UP main at Gothenburg, NE. Built in January 1960 as Southern Ry. SD24 no. 6315, it was acquired by Illinois Central a... (more)

UP SD70AH no. 8885 rolls a unit pipe train west just out of Brady, NE about 20 minutes east of North Platte on the three track mainline along U. S. Hwy. 30. Note the fancy green flag.

The days last sunlight greets an eastbound empty coal train as it crosses the causeway at Trout Creek, MT along the Clark Fork on Montana Rail Link. The train is en route from Hauser, ID to Missou... (more)

A helper crew has cut a quartet of SD70ACe helpers out of a coal train and has entered the siding at Elliston, MT to get out of the way so the road crew can back onto the rear portion of the train... (more)

Rain and snow greet a westbound BNSF grain train that is tied down in the siding at Hathaway, MT east of Forsyth. The crew would have finished their trip into Forsyth in a van. The weather in Mont... (more)