Two UP trains wait in the Sparks yard to head west over Donner pass into California.

Minturn was the point where the Tennessee Pass line diverged from D&RGW's main Denver-Salt Lake line. The line would be closed shortly, but judging from the traffic I saw during this visit, it st... (more)

Not the best photo in the world, but give me credit - I braved Caliente in August to snag it! The temperature was hovering near 110 this day.

As late as 1990 it was still possible to see solid lashups of Chessie units on the CSX, as evidenced by this photograph.

Things were certainly colorful on the early CSX. Note the Chessie caboose to the left and Seaboard Coast Line unit coupled to the GP40-2 - both most certainly strangers in these parts.

Former C&O unit idles at Leewood's fueling rack.

COLT operates a former Wabash branch stretching from Columbia, MO to Centralia, MO.

This two-car set of former Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines RDCs languished for years outside MARC's Baltimore engine servicing facility.

SP's Cotton Belt maintained a small intermodal yard in Memphis, which was quickly vacated after the UP/SP merger. This power set, consisting of an SD45, B30-7, and a tunnel motor, was pretty typi... (more)

An eastbound Penn Line train to Baltimore slows for the stop at Halethorpe on a rainy Wednesday late afternoon. Lots of evidence of the Pennsy in this shot, from the four-track main line to the p... (more)