Three brand-new Missouri Pacific EMD SD50 locomotives power a coal train at Dupo, Illinois, in December 1984. Dupo is located south of St. Louis on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River.

Looking like a model on a well-scenicked model railroad, UP 9108 West approaches the east portal of tunnel 9 deep in the Feather River Canyon. Rock slides in this area are common, and UP routinely... (more)

Late on a beautiful afternoon in the Sierra Nevada, SP 192 West departs Truckee, CA.

Santa Fe EMD GP20 No. 3040 leads a westbound Santa Fe freight through the curve at Ancona, Illinois, in March 1984.

A raw, late autumn-early winter day in Chicagoland gives way to a foggy and damp dusk on November 29, 1986, as a westbound Burlington Northern commuter train roars out of the gloom at Naperville, ... (more)

The last westbound Capitol of the day slows to a stop at Davis.

A pair of CN SD40-2Ws wait out the snow storm in the Fraser Canyon near the Hope depot. At this moment, nature is winning, but within the next day things will start to get back to normal.

A westbound Southern Pacific freight follows the Arkansas River just west of Cotopaxi, Colorado, on Rio Grande’s original mainline route through the Royal Gorge and over Tennessee Pass on Septem... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train descends a 2 percent grade on the Front Range of the Rockies through the unique Flatirons rock formations just west of Plainview, Colorado, on February 28, 20... (more)

Out of the rain
On a rainy spring day in California, a woman waits for her train at the former Santa Fe station in Stockton on March 13, 1995.

One of those shots I almost didn't bother to shoot at the time but now so glad that I did. An outlawed Oak Point/Bronx to Selkirk manifest idles beside CP-114 on the Hudson Line on a cold April... (more)

SP's loaded Shell Oil Train roars up the stiff and curving grade at the west end of Bealville. Note that all power on the head end is EMD tunnel motors. The train weighs in at approximately 10,000... (more)

Six 4-axle units pound up the steep grade between Bena and Sandcut. From here it's all downhill to Bakersfield.

Westbound empties are moving in Council Bluffs towards the Missouri River Bridge.

One of two Bombardier LRC sets leased by Amtrak for 2 years in the early 1980's sits in Sunnyside Yard between runs, and without it's LRC locomotive, which (I am only guessing here) is awaiting th... (more)