Wisconsin & Calumet GP9 618 (ex-B&O 6589) with a work train passes the former C&NW depot in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Aug. 1, 1989. The WICT took over the C&NW line from Janesville to Waukesha in th... (more)

Southern Pacific's Broadway Local power, consisting of SW1500 2684 and GP9E 3350, return to the main line and their train in Mountain View, California, after delivering cars to Moffett Field Naval... (more)

Amtrak F40 229 and 348 lead the Talgo Train, along with three SP business cars, westbound over UP's former Western Pacific Altamont Pass line on Oct. 8, 1994. The Talgo cars were on a nationwide p... (more)

Amtrak FP7 117 leads sister ex-SP units 122, 163, 119 and 113 eastbound into Livermore, California, on April 12, 1975. The train was a roundtrip excursion from Oakland to Tracy, running via Southe... (more)

Following the discontinuance of the California Zephyr, Western Pacific FP7A 804D worked in freight service until being traded in to GE in August 1972. Renumbered to second 916D, the engine is in t... (more)

Western Pacific's "Fab Four," F7A 913, 917, 918 and 921, lead the Stockton-Milpitas Ford Fast at MP 33.8 in Niles Canyon, between Sunol and Niles Junction, on January 16, 1977. Kodachrome 64

Santa Fe F7 38C leads the eastbound San Francisco Chief past the siding at Christie, California, on April 24, 1971. The train only has a week of operation left before the start of Amtrak. Fujichr... (more)

ATSF B40-8W 518 and 556 lead an employees special eastbound at Pinole on July 4, 1992. The consist is Santa Fe business cars 62, 60 and 89. The Pinole depot is boarded up but still used by MOW cre... (more)

C&NW H10-44 1063 heads through downtown Appleton, Wisconsin, on August 14, 1975 to switch customers on the north side of town. The engine was built in 1948 as Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omah... (more)

C&NW Baldwin AS-16M 1498 (ex-MKT 141) shows off its EMD GP9 long hood while switching the industries in Appleton, Wis., on December 20, 1980. Katy had the unit repowered by EMD in 1960, which resu... (more)

Gulf, Mobile & Ohio RS-1 50 (ex-Alton 50) switches in Illinois Central Gulf's former GM&O Bloomington, Illinois, yard on August 26, 1973. Kodachrome II

Gulf, Mobile & Ohio F3 885A, 811A and Illinois Central GP10 8227 in Illinois Central Gulf's former GM&O Bloomington, IL yard on August 26, 1973. Kodachrome II

Southern Pacific's Sunnyvale Local with RS-32 4004 and C-50-4 caboose 1899 switching the Libby's cannery in Sunnyvale on August 3, 1973. The cannery closed in 1985 and the siding and yard tracks a... (more)

Fellow railfan Ken Rattenne and I pooled our flashbulbs and spent the night of April 15, 1987 shooting Operation Lifesaver engines SP E9 6051, WP F7 913 and UP E9 951 on the San Francisco Belt Rai... (more)

Burlington Northern RS-11 4180 (ex-NP 900) delayed its date with the scrapper by becoming a parts source to help keep Green Bay & Western's fleet of Alco locomotives running. The 4180 is pictured... (more)