This March 1989 Kodachrome shows a filthy U30B leading this southbound train at Carleton, Michigan with the engineer just about to grab the orders. Today, the tower is closed (but still standing... (more)

GLLX 921, also known as "Miss Scarlet" - due to that name being painted on the end of the long hood - is ex-Twin Branch Coal 921, nee NW 921. After serving the N&W, it was acquired by the Twin Bra... (more)

Charlotte Southern #3 is seen here in its namesake city warming up in preparation for the sold-out 7pm Murder Mystery Dinner Train. Sandwiched between two 6-foot snow banks, the GE 44-tonner and i... (more)

Northbound on the left hand main (timetable West) to run around a derailment cleanup one mile ahead, GTW 5832 is in charge of train 435 (inter-modal from Ferndale to Blue Island) on this June even... (more)

Three Lake Superior and Ishpeming RSD-15's (ex Santa Fe) wait quietly for a crew to come on duty and fire them up for the next ore train. Ektachrome 64.

After being held at Attica Junction for Northbound traffic, southbound NKP765 and NKP Heritage unit 8100 are at their top allowed speed of 40MPH on the way south to Bucyrus, Ohio. This is the last... (more)

Just after crossing the Sandusky river, NKP 765 arrives in Bucyrus, Ohio at the end of its Southbound run on the second of three employee trips. The big Berk will take the wye here, and return Nor... (more)

Shortly before the arrival of NKP 765, two NS employees, after backing their work truck down the access road next to the NE leg of the wye at Bucyrus Ohio, apply a liberal amount of grease to the ... (more)

At the end of a long day, K-36 487 (Baldwin, 1925) pauses near the Chama coaling tower to take on more sand before having her fire cleaned.

As Wheeling & Lake Erie #3048 looks on (an SD40-3) an un-numbered NL&S SW1 pulls hard on a cut of hoppers loaded with crushed stone. Who at EMD in the late 1940's would have imagined this tough sw... (more)

The Steam Railroading Institute and the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society hosted a night photo shoot with NKP 765 in her "As-Built" condition.

Working its way slowly across the front lawn of the Thomas Edison Inn, CN's (former GTW) Dunn Paper local is approaching the end of the line just beyond the Thomas Edison Depot Museum and the twin... (more)

In this March 1979 image, a GTW employee fills the sand box of GP9 4440. Still in black and red, this GP9 and sister 4444 were my two "shadows" - the units I seemed to see the most way back then. ... (more)

By the early '80's, locomotives still in C&O paint were not unknown, but were becoming uncommon. This GP9, the last one of an order built in August 1957 (6239-6263) was nearing the end of it's ser... (more)

About to clatter over the diamonds at Milwaukee Junction, GTW GP9 4914 (former passenger engine; note "torpedo tube" air tanks on the roof) is caught on this fine June day in 1979. What's interest... (more)