New C&NW C40-8 8524 leads a loaded coal train out of the Powder River Basin on August 28, 1989.

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)

Mission Mountain Railroad has recently painted GP39 (GP39-2) No. 3942 in the colors of a local high school. The locomotive is painted blue and white in honor of the Columbia Falls High School Wild... (more)

The drip strip over the cab window and the AAR trucks indicate that this Conrail C430 is of Reading lineage, as opposed to the former New York Central units, which had Alco’s Hi-Ad trucks. Conra... (more)

An Illini Terminal GP40 sits in the morning sun at the port in Granite City. This was a Milwaukee Road Bandit now repainted.

For the better part of 2014 it was not uncommon to find one or two former SOO LINE SD60's working the Denver Yard along side other CIT units.

Ex-DT&I GP38 200 now completely in GTW colors, and became fully GTWized in the 6000 series.

The transaction of the DT&I sale to the GTW were carried out in 1980. Upon completion of the sale, the DT&I retained its name for a brief period of time and was operated as the DT&I Division of th... (more)

Having been constructed in nearby LaGrange, a brand new MBTA unit is seen at the IHB's Blue Island Yard awaiting an eastbound Conrail freight for final delivery. Tom Golden photo.

Founded in the 1880s, the Chicago, West Pullman, and Southern was designed to transport steel from Wisconsin Steel's plant on Chicago's South Side to the nearby Harvester manufacturing plant. The... (more)

Little Rock Port Authority unit rests the night away near the railroads shops at the Arkansas River Port complex.

Ex-Conrail and Ex-Indiana Railroad power now works together at the elevator in Tamora, NE

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie GP38 2027, one of 17 ex-Conrail units (2025-2041).

Caney Fork and Western GP7 104 rests outside of the railroad's shop/office building in McMinnville, TN. The photo was taken with the railroad's permission.