After dropping their cut of cars off, UP 679 pulls up the very end of the yard so the conductor can throw the switch and they can head back home to Superior, WI.

A UP transfer from their yard in Superior, WI arrives at the snow filled CP yard on Rices Point in Duluth, MN.

FURX GP38-2 5524 leads a transfer of stacks to Landers yard east through Bridgeview.

The Monon owned nine EMD BL2s, a strange evolutionary step between cab units and GP7s. Some found BL2s to be hopelessly ugly; I always thought they were kind of neat because they were so different... (more)

A pair of Rock Island RS3s thunk across the diamond at Pullman Junction on the South Side of Chicago with a transfer run back in 1969. This was a great place for train-watching for this East Coast... (more)

Our perch high above the swollen Susquehanna River affords an opportunity to compare EMD models SW7 and SW9 switchers on a transfer run west out of Enola. Ex-NYC No. 8851 (built 2-50) is leading ... (more)

Crossing the E-W mains over to the CB&Q yard is NW's transfer, the lineage of this GP7 goes back to the original Wabash roster, the railroad that served the Bluffs up from Moberly, MO. up till 196... (more)

A Milwaukee transfer is captured westward on the KCT nearing Union Station and eventually winding it's way across the bottoms to the Kansas side and western connections.

After riding train #7, the now unnamed ex Cornhusker/Corn Belt Rocket from the Quad Cities, the photographer walks west of the depot to catch the activity near 16th Ave. in the terminal trackage, ... (more)

On a summer morning, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy GP7 206 leads a transfer run across the Chicago River drawbridge approaching the multi-track diamonds at Ash Street Tower. I believe that the the ... (more)

There was still some operating steam on the NYC in late 1955 but a person had to go to the west end of the system to find it. One place was under the Eads Bridge in the era before Interstates. It ... (more)

A Pennsy transfer pounds the iron under the Eads Bridge.

Burlington Northern 1920 East holds clear of Bridge 4 in Ballard, WA with a quartet of EMD GP9's in various trim levels. Aside from the rainy cloudy day, what I noticed right away about this photo... (more)

A UP transfer from Superior, WI. pulls into the CP yard at Rices Point in Duluth, MN with their remaining 8 car train after stopping to drop cars off at the BNSF yard earlier.

After dropping their short 8 car transfer off in the CP Rices Point yard in Duluth, the UP crew pulls up to the very end of the yard, throws the switch to enter a clear track, and so begins the tr... (more)