Three Burlington Northern EMD SD60Ms power an eastbound coal train through the Badlands past milepost 145 east of Medora, North Dakota, on July 27, 1992.

Sweeping through a scenic curve in Kingman Canyon, an eastbound BNSF stack train approaches Kingman, Arizona. Springtime rains have left this arid canyon touched by green on this day of March 16, ... (more)

Back in the second half of 2009, the CN power desk cycled through a few EJ&E units to work on the former Missabe in northern Minnesota. It was definitely different and brought photographers out o... (more)

A fortuitous break in the double stack containers on a westbound BNSF train allows a look at the roller coaster grade into Seligman, Arizona, where an eastbound is cruising through town, and anoth... (more)

SP's Fifth Help prepares to flag through the control point at Spring Glen, Utah on Sept. 5, 1994. The two unit helper was dispatched from Helper Yard to rescue a westbound freight stalled on the g... (more)

A-B-A Warbonnets
A westbound BNSF freight on Union Pacific’s Moffat Subdivision has a set of A-B-A Super Fleet warbonnets just west of Rollinsville, Colorado, on February 6, 1999. Gen... (more)

One of the tank cars used to bring in the fuel the Santa-Fe oil-burners needed on a coal-burning railroad is spotted by the roundhouse. Oil burners were a western railroad fuel not akin to PRR op... (more)

Erie-built FM power #9471 sits on the turntable at St. Clair Ave. roundhouse, PRR class FF20. Behind it a Baldwin shark and showing it's tender in the stall is what appears to be #5016, leased Sa... (more)

C&O 3273 brings up the rear of a B&OCT local. Tom Golden photo.

A Rio Grande SD45/SD40T-2 combo lead a coal empty across the Bear Creek trestle on SP's North Fork Branch.

A pair of auto racks make for interesting looky-loo sightings (and yes the photographer was also a looky-loo) as the scene of a derailment in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York attracted a great deal of... (more)

SP's Creede Local sets out 16 cars of interchange traffic for the San Luis Central Railroad at Sugar Junction. The 3155, one of the last new D&RGW locomotives, seems right at home in Colorado's Ri... (more)

SP's Creede Local heads west through the San Luis Valley with 16 cars of interchange traffic for the San Luis Central Railroad at Sugar Junction.

In the years after the Rio Grande/Southern Pacific merger, Rio Grande locomotives often accumulated great quantities of filth, as can be seen in the pair of EMD SD40T-2 point helpers on this westb... (more)

A Delaware and Hudson and a Conrail boxcar sit out in a field after being involved in a derailment. Across the Hudson River is Breakneck Mountain.