The LS&I 3PM yard job works its way into the joint LS&I/CNW/Soo Line yard at Ishpeming with 15 cars of general freight/mine supplies. Gators 2400,2405, and 2401 darken the sky in fine Alco traditi... (more)

An empty BNSF taconite train rolls east through some Minnesota landscape on a quiet early morning with fog and freezing drizzle covering the area. This train will load at United Taconite and retu... (more)

Eastbound at mp 142 , notice the smoking lead engine.

Four Alco PA's rev up to yank S.P. Mail 21 west out of the fueling stop at Carlin, Nevada on April 23, 1964.

Apache Railway C424 #98 leads a short train up the Snowflake Branch. These units had just dropped of 10 cars of sand for storage on the branch, and now were returning to Snowflake Junction and the... (more)

Apache Railway #98 leads the weekly coal train through S curve just outside of Snowflake. Every week the Catalyst Paper Mill, the Apache Railway's owner, required one of these coal trains to maint... (more)

Apache Railway C424 #98 makes a smoky exit from Holbrook as it pulls its train across the Little Colorado River bridge. The first of many grades on the Apache Railway begins right outside the Holb... (more)

Fired up & moving out for the days work

Apache Railway C424 #98 roars uphill out of Holbrook with a southbound freight to the Catalyst Paper Mill in Snowflake, AZ. Holbrook, a city on the BNSF transcon, was where the Apache Railway inte... (more)

Apache Railway C424 #99 starts its train at Snowflake Junction. The units had just run down the Snowflake Branch to move stored cars, and then recoupled to the northbound train. Of course, as the ... (more)

Apache Railway C424 #99 climbs the last grade before the Catalyst Paper Mill in Snowflake, AZ. This was the last month of operations for the Apache Railway as the line shut down in September 2012.... (more)

Apache railway C424 #99 darkens the sky with characteristic ALCo smoke as it enters Elkins Ranch with the daily train south from Holbrook. The Apache was the last bastion for ALCo diesels in the W... (more)

Under cloudy skies caused by monsoonal thunderstorms, 6 engines help power the last cut of the very last Blue Looper coal train out of Holbrook, AZ, passing a storage shed just outside of Yard Lim... (more)

3 of the Apache Railway's finest locomotives smoke it up as the Holbrook Turn rounds the curve headed southbound at MP 5 on 9/20/12.

Southbound D&H Train RW-6 passes a northbound freight at Schenevus, NY on Feb. 19, 1980, led by C420 No. 412.