DENVER CO Oct 4 1983 — BN GP20 2021 awaits its fate. The unit is former Great Northern 2021 (b/n 26289). It was delivered in November 1960. BN retired it in November 1981. My photo.

Last owned by Seaboard System and now in a real stealth consist leading an eastbound freight. Photo by Mike Dolenski.

The Port Harbor Veterans unit rests in Granite City between assignments.

I have to admit that I originally though the crew was goosing it for my benefit. But after he pass. I realized it was because they were just trying to get a giant train up the hill. Just guessing,... (more)

Super Fleet warbonnet Santa Fe locomotives are everywhere at the railroad’s servicing facility at Corwith Yard in Chicago, Illinois, on June 2, 1996. General Electric B40-8W No. 521 shares track... (more)

ONR plow no. 560 catches some late rays of sun as it rolls through Hallebourg.

Normally arriving at Sandpoint, Idaho, at 2:20 a.m., Amtrak’s eastbound Empire Builder scurries through Algoma approaching Sandpoint a bit off the advertised at 10:10 a.m. on February 2, 2023. A... (more)

A southbound BNSF manifest, coming off of the Front Range Sub, crosses the UP Belt Industrial Lead at Utah Junction. A Warbonnet happens to be second out on the elephant-style manifest as it arriv... (more)

Rolling at train speed, 60 mph (for passenger trains) is BNSF Railway Officer Special O-LACSBD8-06A. BNSF ET44C4 7939 can handle this 10-car train easily as it heads 62 miles from Los Angeles ... (more)

The Chief is seen arriving at Albuquerque with ATSF FT 167, and mates, leading 14 cars on June 28th 1947. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A Red Barn and two conventional SD40-2's, are in charge of a grain train. (Tom Ellis photo)

Just as a Ice Storm approaches M 302 crosses Main Street Battle Creek as it heads into the Yard CN Battle Creek Yard for a Set off and Pick Up before heading East.

Norfolk Southern is replacing the 132 pound welded rail on this line with larger 136 pound per yard welded rail. This is part of a multiyear project to increase capacity. Here an EB rail train i... (more)

Lake Pontchartrain is a brackish estuary located in southeastern Louisiana. It covers an area of 630 square miles with an average depth of 12 to 14 feet. Its roughly 39x24 miles wide and length, a... (more)

Empty coal hoppers bound for Wyoming. The track in the foreground appears to be a switching lead, with fresh use almost to the end.