A trio of BN SD40-2s highball Hardin, MO on a May morning. Hardin is located upon a thirty mile segment of joint-track used by BNSF and NS.

Getting underway out of Argentine Yard, ATSF 915 leads a Dash8-40BW, GP60 B unit and an SD75M (915-500-331B-218) as it heads west on a June evening.

You can almost feel the intent of Santa Fe's Transcon, slashing across the country, inexorably pursuing the coast. Same could be said of the 7443 West as it races through Stronghurst, IL on a late... (more)

CR 6469 rattles across the NS diamonds in Marion, OH with an eastbound trailvan. The train is passing AC Tower that was active until 1994 and has since been moved across the right of way. It was q... (more)

In 1994 C&NW is still an independent operation, although dependent upon UP for its livelihood to a large extent. UP functioned as a bridge line for Powder River coal traffic between South Morrill,... (more)

UP 6137 leads a trio with westbound auto racks at Ogallala, NE. That third unit mystifies me; obviously a leased unit but its origin is unknown.

Three SD40-2s and a C30-7 lead a 146 car westbound around Horseshoe Curve on a spring afternoon. The second unit, 6960, was originally PC 6259 and rebuilt as an SD40-2R.

CR 6240, just one month old, looks great as it is teamed with an SD40-2 on an eastbound manifest rolling along the Juniata River at Warrior Ridge, between Huntingdon and Petersburg, PA. This was m... (more)

CR 3291 in the company of a B36-7 leads a westbound van train beneath the 2426/2427 signal bridge between Horseshoe Curve and MG on an October afternoon.

I'm unsure as to whether this is Amtrak or a UP special train with the undiluted set of E9s and UP consist at this date - probably the latter. The train is eastbound at the Cheyenne depot. The tra... (more)

For awhile there I was living the life of Reilly, living in Rollinsville and traveling back and forth from work on the Rio Grande via Colo. Highway 72, passing beneath the railroad at the entrance... (more)

The Portland-Seattle Vans has crested the grade near Encina, OR, but there are more ahead in the Blue Mountains for this quartet of SD40, 40-2s. CNW 6922, third out, was one of only two SD40-2s to... (more)

The old Bob Wills song "Miles and Miles of Texas" is apparent in this image of ATSF 242 leading an A-B-B-B-B-A set of F7s on a 59 car westbound near Muleshoe, TX. You can bet they sounde... (more)

Rolling along the Arkansas River between Princeton and Granite, CO, SP 8703 leads CNW 6933 and DRGW 5410 on a Herington, KS to Oakland, CA auto train. The Tennessee Pass route was active for only ... (more)

A westbound trailvan races through Latrobe, PA on a spring evening. Latrobe sits in a sag and, in CR days as here, trains really ripped through getting a run on grades in either direction. The sta... (more)