A westbound train of empties is diverging from the main with a SD45-SLUG-SD45 set leading a gigantic string of empties. Photo by Jim Satterwhite.

Looking only slightly like it's in disguise, this former MILW unit is arriving to work the quarry and salt storage site west of town. Other than a scrapyard there doesn't appear to be any reason ... (more)

Both built in 1947, the rear unit for A&EC, these antiques have teamed up to pull a photo freight which has arrived at the turnaround point. At this point I'll put in my pitch for an NS A&EC comm... (more)

They look pretty good, and they were often free but the "Truck Engined Switchers" we feared didn't work out for most and such an assemblage is now very difficult to find.

Originally B&E but looking great in a shiny classic paint scheme this unit is actually from the Potomac Eagle Operation.

I've long called 93 a "funny" engine. More modern rounded domes, but a square valve case, antiquated single lung air pumps, Walshaerts valve gear but placed inside. In any case the sce... (more)

The fireman is making some adjustments prior to departure of out photographer's train as the recreated daily passenger train is departing over by the coaling tower. The aspens have turned here at... (more)

Racing eastward the "Southwest Chief" is down on the Mississippi as we make our way west to Iowa and a great railroad adventure.

A former Conrail unit is doing some switching.

In the foreboding shadow of a looming downpour an empty coaler is coming off the former C&O and will swing west on the former B&O main line. The foreign unit has some other companions in a once b... (more)

Lettered for Licking River Terminal. I'm reasonably certain these do not have Alco prime movers. One has radio control and is MU'd with the other. At the time they were either retired or backup... (more)

Lettered for Licking River Terminal. I'm reasonably certain these do not have Alco prime movers. One has radio control and is MU'd with the other. At the time they were either retired or backup... (more)

Some of the original cars. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

Not as well known as Pidcock or other shortline empires, the Evans family possessed a prosperous little stable in the Tarheel State. Here one of their 70-tonner's Cooper-Bessemer engines produces... (more)

Modified for hump service at Rice Yard in Waycross these "H-15s" as the railroad called them were in at least one case re-engined with old 16-567BC engines. After SBD came along they sh... (more)