this local train makes a brief stop while the "Sea of Stones" towers in the background.

UP 3111 still earns its keep as it works the west end of the West Colton yard with a local. The well worn SD40-2 is working with an SD38-2 #Y824.

local to Pizzo and further to Lamezia in Calabria is about to duck into the tunnel under the historic city of Pizzo

The Western Allegheny RR daily train from Kaylor to Queen Junction and return has just gone on duty at Kaylor and is working its first siding, Blue Row Tipple, just west of town. Two F7s, led by ... (more)

Old IC's bring a local out of Decatur past the Warrensburg elevators.

3363 is plowing the small amount of freshly fallen snow that's on the rails while she brings in the local.

With their day nearly done, NF&D's Lawrenceville-Emporia Turnaround Local arrives back at Lawrenceville, VA on April 16, 1970.

SAN 1400 with Slug 91

The eastbound NF&D Lawrenceville-Emporia Turnaround Local puts their train together at Lawrenceville, VA on April 16, 1970.

I made my first trip to New England in 1985 right after the Guilford merger but before too many units were repainted. One thing I didn't expect to find was a Central Vermont unit switching in Port... (more)

Apparently Rail America subsidiary Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway buys into the ''paint doesn't make a locomotive run any better'' mantra, as a Westbound local works the Union Pacific interchang... (more)

It's The Water! It's downtown Olympia on a warm mid-summer Friday and Tacoma Rail's "Belmore" Local crosses Capitol Lake on it's way to work industry in Tummwater's Mottman Industrial Park.... (more)

Light power runs through the rural Shelby County town of Moweaqua. Decades ago this was a busy Illinois Central line.

Really nice GP 59, parked just south of Richmond, in an Industrial park.

Evening grain train arrives in Decatur and heads to the yard at sunset.