No longer pulling the Big Sky Blue Empire Builder, BN 6596, (x-GN 330), finds its new life in hauling freight. Here it is picutred with a U33C at BN's Seattle Interbay locomotive facilities in bet... (more)

Amtrak train 513 rolls over a bridge at the south end of Chuckanut Bay about 20 minutes south of Bellingham, WA as it heads towards Mt. Vernon, WA, Everett and Seattle. The northbound counterpart ... (more)

A BNSF coal train cruises east along the Columbia River below the Rock Island dam in the last sunlight of the day. It will meet the Quincy local at Albus (Columbia River siding) in a matter of sec... (more)

A rainy day in Vancouver greets the arrival of The Canadian as the train rolls by a tower just east of the CP station.

Eastern Washington Gateway's "scooter" train has picked up at Almira, WA and is following a shallow coulee east through sagebrush and wheat fields to Govan and Wilbur. The train will sto... (more)

GTW 5850 and 5851 are unwelcome new arrivals on the DWP for railfans. In summer 1983 they have replaced aging DWP RS-11s which were the backbone of the railroad since replacing steam in the latter... (more)

Santa Fe power mixed with an LMX leaser exits Abo Canyon with a westbound train headed for Belen, NM. A couple years into BNSF, it was nice to still be able to see "pure" Santa Fe locos,... (more)

A westbound Conrail freight bends around the curve near Berea tower. Five years into Conrail, much work remains to be done to build a viable system from the predecessor lines. Tri-color New York C... (more)

BN 6364 brings its eastbound train to a stop at Wenatchee as BN 8113 gets a westbound stack train underway in front of the Wenatchee landmark Cascadian Fruit Shippers cold storage warehouse. In th... (more)

PNCX 6323, a former Southern Railway SD24 is parked at Altoona, WI on CNW for fueling and sand. CNW leased a batch of these units in 1979 and later bought some of them converting them to SD18s (de... (more)

BLE 871 and 862 are parked outside their diesel shops at Albion, PA. The BLE chose a unique headlight setup for the short hood, and also had unique sand fillers in the nose.

Amtrak train 5, the California Zephyr makes good time on the center track heading west on BNSF through Highlands, IL. The GE P40 makes quite a different impression than the trailing EMD F40PH.

BN 2518, a former GN GP35 leads a freight past Reservation Tower in Tacoma, WA. This tower protected activity at the east end of BN and UP yards along their respective mainlines in Tacoma. The UP ... (more)

Orange and black abounds in the joint KCS/SOO Knoche Yard in Kansas City, MO on June 28, 1986 as Rio Grande Tunnel Motor no. 5356 lines up with a trio of MILW GP40s now under Soo Line ownership. T... (more)

CP 5818 threads an empty coal train around a tight S curve along the cliffs as it heads east up the Fraser Canyon east of Yale, BC.