I found this old slide taken by my friend David DeVault. It's the color version of a unit I also photographed (in black and white) that same summer: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id... (more)

The departing InterAmerican

Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha tiptoes over Homestake Pass just east of Butte, MT. This train and a BN local were the only traffic normally operated over NP's original Continental Divide crossing b... (more)

SP 6392 leads a Geep somewhere in CA in this slide from my collection, no photographer listed, no location and only the Kodak date stamp on the slide to go by. I'm guessing the location as the bui... (more)

BN 4366, 2543, 2545, and 2532 lead a Inside Gateway job somewhere on the WP in this slide from my collection. I traded for this one years ago, no legible photographer name on mount.

Box cab electric helpers were not always placed mid-train in Milwaukee's eastbound freights climbing the 1.6% continental divide out of Butte up to Pipestone Pass, Montana. On April 10, 1970 E29... (more)

A Vancouver BC to Balmer Yard (Seattle) WA freight passes through Marysville, Washington, on September 18th, 1979. Lead GP30 2225 is the former Chicago Burlington & Quincy 948, and it is followed... (more)

Motor train #26 has just arrived from Carlsbad, New Mexico, and is rounding the east leg of the Clovis wye. Baldwin switcher 2253 is waiting to couple to the rear of chair-observation 3197 and wil... (more)

An old favorite photo spot for many, this one was taken July 12, 1978 when BN's Marias Pass still had signal bridges and crossovers. A F45, a GE U boat and a SD45 lead reefer Train 97 westward ... (more)

A huge Lockheed aircraft parts car heads west on an SP freight climbing the Palmdale-Colton Cut-off. The car is likely headed for the Lockheed facility located between Palmdale and Lancaster, CA.

Still in original paint instead of "Perlman green," two Western Pacific GE's, and three BN units, restrain tonnage westbound down the Feather River near Tobin, Calif. The train came onto WP rail... (more)

The Milwaukee Road is ending its operations in the western United States. This is the 2nd to the last train, which is heading east with a collection of the remaining motive power and rolling stock... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific is heading up into the Oregon Cascade Mountains as it travels along this man made lake.

BN 1750 and 4 other vintage units lead a freight west through tunnel 9, the first of 3 tunnels just west of Lyle, WA along the Columbia River en route to Vancouver, WA from Wishram.

BN 6110 and 9819 twirl around the turntable at Superior, Wis. before heading to the wash rack. BN 6110 is former GN 583, an SD9; BN 9819 is former NP 7010C/6709B an F9B that would be renumbered th... (more)