SLRG 103 leads the deadhead move of the IPH Polar Express across the CP Fox Lake Sub. The train is destine for Middleton, WI where IPH had about 5 miles of trackage rights over the WSOR Prairie Su... (more)
Outlined by its replacement in the dying sunlight, this classic profile is without peer.
The SNC dinner train switches beside the Canadian Main on a warm evening.
Sometimes it can really pay off not to procrastinate on certain things on certain railroads that can seem too good to be true. I made a spontaneous decision to get up to Saratoga one September ev... (more)
Displayed for the big “Streamliners” event a wonderful occasion but, oh the heat.
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 Polar Express, with that covered wagon mystique. Former CB&Q E9 9913 leads the Polar Express Train at the Gold Coast Railroad Museum on the night of Saturday, December 8, 2018. CB&Q was famous... (more)
Union Pacific’s two glossy E9As sit inside the roundhouse at Cheyenne, Wyoming, on March 25, 2013. Both were built in 1955, and in the early ’90s, UP sent them to VMV Enterprises in Paducah, K... (more)
BN 3 departs the boarding area for the Happy Holiday Railway on another trip.
A Burlington Northern E-unit leads a commuter train along the Race Track between Aurora and Chicago. Tom Golden photo.
The Nebraska Museum train pounds the BNSF diamond in Fremont on the return trip back to Omaha Union Station.
UP 951 rests in the Cheyenne steam shop's roundhouse, along with other units from the UP Heritage Fleet.
UP 951 leads a passenger excursion past a waiting coal train, led by BN 5129, at Willis KS in August of 1994. I remember it was a brutally hot day and we never turned the car off so the A/C could ... (more)
BN 3 leads the coach train east of Union.
