Blue on blue
Two Cimarron Valley Railroad EMD GP30s sit outside the railroad’s three-stall engine shop at Satanta, Kansas, on the morning of March 1, 2000. At the time, the CVR locomot... (more)

A westbound Cimarron Valley local powered by EMD GP30 No. 3024, is east of Ryus, Kansas, on February 29, 2000. Two carbon black cars are headed to Columbia Carbon east of Hickok as this short trai... (more)

Union Pacific’s LJP45 “dirt train” rumbles through Spring Glen, Utah, on the morning of April 4, 2000. Three Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors power the eastbound local, with No. 5347 lea... (more)

Rio Grande's Roper and Helper steam derricks were called to clean up a 13 car derailment at West Gilluly on March 28, 1976. GP9s 5922 and 5932 handled the Roper wrecker with crane 027 while GP40-2... (more)

Keeping Burlington Northern's route over Stevens Pass open during the winter months is hard work and requires locomotives, train crews, MOW employees and snow removal equipment to get the job done... (more)

Photographed from the Roosevelt Avenue bridge, New York Central train #28 the NEW ENGLAND STATES at LaSalle Street Station in Chicago . An A-B-A set provide the power with E8A #4089 in the l... (more)

BN 1792 and 1754 rev up after slowing to cross the Rock Island bridge over the Columbia River at Rock Island, WA, about 12 miles east of Wenatchee. The x-GN and x-NP GP9s have 40 empty 40 ft. boxc... (more)

A North Western train from the Twin Cities (via BN trackage rights) waits to enter DM&IR trackage on its way to Itasca Yard in far eastern Superior while power for a BN all-rail ore train heads fo... (more)

The sun is below the horizon as a trio of SDs roar through Goodwater, the low light causing a Kodachrome 'blow-out' of 3230's headlight. An SD24 and an SD35 trail the Dash-2.

Conrail MA-80 arrives in the yard at South Plainfield on a rainy Saturday morning. This job typically runs on Saturdays to serve Marino\WARE, a steel fabricator. The pair of NS GP38-2s are in th... (more)

130 pound mainline rail along N&W's now abandoned Bluestone Branch near the town of Coopers. Installed in 1930 at the peak of N&W steam and electrification, these rails and remaining N&W infrastru... (more)

Now a thing of the past, the California Zephyr is stopped at the temporary Denver station and takes on fuel. The CZ recently returned to Union Station. It had been at a temporary station due to ... (more)

Here's a throwback shot, A&WP GP40 729 working the old connection between the SCL and A&WP which ran right through downtown Union City, The Union City municipal complex now occupies this area. Eve... (more)