All aboard! After spending a great day on the slopes, more than 750 passengers board the Rio Grande Ski Train at Colorado's Winter Park Ski Resort the afternoon of March 28, 1997.

Christmas night—20 years ago
On the quiet eve of December 25, 1994, a gathering of Chicago and North Western locomotives slumber the night away at Butler, Wisconsin. New GE C44-9W No.... (more)

It really does snow in the desert, as this scene on Union Pacific’s Green River Subdivision in Utah illustrates. A short UP LJP45 local, also known as the “dirt train,” is about to pass over... (more)

MILW 81A, a freshly repainted F7A unit waits at Tacoma to assist a train up Tacoma Hill. This view was taken through the cab window of GE Steeple Cab E81 which was awaiting scrapping after being r... (more)

Milwaukee road Extra 21 East bends around a curve at Hyak, Washington powered by a quartet of SD40-2s. Nos. 21 and 22 are equipped with icicle breakers for knocking down icicles in tunnels to prot... (more)

Indiana Harbor Belt caboose number 72 is the focal point of this Gibson yard scene in 1978.

Five and one half years after I visited the Bangor and Aroostook at Northern Maine Junction [photoid=510914], the BAR auctioned off most of their F3 and BL2 fleet. Three of those locomotives ended... (more)

At over 12,000 feet Mt. Humphrey Arizona's highest peak looms in the background as four EMD yellow bonnets lead an eastbound on the Transcon.

MILW 908, a venerable Baldwin VO-1000 rests outside the Pig's Eye Yard roundhouse on a chilly January 1975 morning. Milwaukee had a number of Baldwins still in service in the Twin cities area at t... (more)

Approaching the small town of Eagle, Colorado, an SGVCC coal empty rambles through scenic Red Canyon on Sept. 26, 1996.

Good Morning Colorado! A lineup of Southern Pacific power await a chance to tackle Tennessee Pass spotted at Minturn Yard on Sept. 27, 1996. Winter has a tendency to arrive early in Minturn, some ... (more)

A few miles south of the crew change point of McComb, a southbound train passes through the tiny hamlet of Chatawa

Power in Bison yard joint engine facility