South Kansas Oklahoma Railway 2211 approaches the KCS main and yard in Pittsburg, KS.

An early, Canadian-spec ES44 complete with marker lights passes the Illinois Central coaling towers on the north end of Gilman, IL.

Helping the Illinois Central with a power shortage, a quartet of leased F7s snake through switches as they lead a northbound freight off the St. Louis line onto the mainline at Gilman, IL. The fir... (more)

CNW 8501 is about to duck under the Hwy 59 overpass bear Bill, WY in May of 1991. There are now 4 tracks at this location to handle all the coal traffic.

106 grain loads are headed west on the Gilman Sub with a classic deathstar SD40-3 in charge. A short time later, the crew would shove to the Cargill plant in town.

Running on ex-CRI&P rails, the homeward-bound leg of the Henry turn passes the Putnam elevator as it travels northward on the Peoria branch toward a connection with the main at Bureau Junction.

UP cross-country international hotshot IDTMX comes into Flatonia, Texas, on the former SP Dalsa cutoff. This train originated on CSX in Detroit, MI, and runs to Laredo, TX, where KCSM brings it to... (more)

Detroit, Toledo & Ironton GP38-2 226, GP40 405, GP38-3 225 and GP40 401 leads train out of Flat Rock, Michigan DT&I yards, now new owner GTW in February 1982.

BCOL 4619 leads CN M399 south through the old IC coaling towers in Gilman, Illinois

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 northbound Fox River Valley Railroad freight curves out of West Bend, Wisconsin, on May 13, 1990. Three unique FRVR six-axle locomotives pull the train—Former CB&Q/BN EMD SD24 No. 2402, former... (more)

A northbound Fox River Valley Railroad freight departs West Bend, Wisconsin, on a sunny March 25, 1990. Three of FRVR’s six-axle locomotives pull the train—the pair of EMD SD24s, Nos. 2401 and... (more)

The IC SD-20 #2030 (nee UP SD-7 #778) & #2032 (nee UP SD-7 #783) from DuQuoin, IL lead the Baldwin Local on its approach to its Baldwin, IL terminus.

Northern Alberta GMD GP9 204 and 209 at Edmonton, Alberta. On January 01, 1981 CN Rail bought out CPR's share in the NAR system and incorporated those Lines into the CN network.

CNW 821 is on Milwaukee Road tracks as it passes thru Sparta, WI at dusk in April of 1976. Bob Ferge Kodachrome from my collection.