A Wing Man... The sound of the quietness of downtown Truckee at sunrise is broken by the sounds of two of UP's finest. An ES44AC and a SD70M tackle the monstrous grade of Donner Pass. The ... (more)
Nickel Plate Road 765 and NS/NKP 8100 lead train 958, the Harrisburg Division employee excursion, across Rockville Bridge as the F units lead train 956, a deadhead business train, eastbound. For m... (more)
NKP 765 makes her grand entrance into Altoona as she passes the no longer manned ALTO Tower and an NS SD80 Mac. Traffic came to a stand still on the bridge as everyone stopped to watch the old gir... (more)
This location never disappoints. 11V pulls off the OC Bridge heading west as 64D passes east while the trash train 65J ducks under and runs beside 11V westbound.
A scene no other railroad can match, At Summerhill on the former PRR mainline between Pittsburgh and Altonna on the West Slope of the Alleghanies. 2 eastbounds race other running upgrade under the... (more)
It's a busy time at West Conway as yard job pushes a string of cars east back into the yard on 102 past an autorack train stopped on 101 while at right a switch job with 2 tank cars from Valvoline... (more)
As fog begins to lift, Iowa Chicago Eastern #6054, leads Montreal bound Montreal Maine & Atlantic train #1 across the Richelieu River just after sunrise.
On an overcast spring day in 1983, Burlington Northern coal trains meet at Palmer Lake, Colorado. At right is a loaded train from Wyoming's Powder River Basin, throttling up to continue its southw... (more)
With an Illinois Central southbound freight waiting, a Toledo, Peoria and Western westbound crosses the diamonds at Gilman, Illinois, on May 5, 1990. The TP&W in this era was repainting some of it... (more)
The tiny train order office at Soldier Summit feels the passage of the tri-weekly Rio Grande Zephyr, train #18.
White Pass & Yukon Train 2, consisting of containers, piggyback private vehicles and no-two-alike passenger cars, leaves Whitehorse, Yukon en route Skagway, Alaska on Sept. 2, 1978. Up ahead ar... (more)
On its maiden eastbound voyage, Santa Fe GP60M No. 100 is on the point of the 2-891 as it meets a westbound manifest at Daggett, CA.
Utah Railway crews shuffle the deck on the south leg of the wye of the Castle Valley Spur near Wellington, Utah.
Zephyr BarWhere shiny stainless-steel Zephyrs once traveled through on the busy route between Chicago and the Twin Cities, Burlington Northern Expediter (BN’s monicker for new 2-perso... (more)
With a new crew on duty, a North Platte, NE to TG Soda, WY manifest departs out of Cheyenne as a BNSF coal train departs as well with a new crew.
