set of four matches black exIC GP's in ICG McComb engine facility

A view of SP's former D&RGW Roper Yard in South Salt Lake. Downtown Salt Lake City is about three miles away from this perspective via a pedestrian bridge.

SP's Fourth South Switcher departs Woods Cross with 17 cars for Salt Lake City.

A Rio Grande GP60 assigned to work the Creede Local turns on the wye near the historic D&RGW roundhouse in Alamosa, Colorado. The sturdy brick structure that served both narrow and standard gauge ... (more)

Wartime Co-Co electric No 194 568-2 approaches Aschaffenburg, past the former Bavarian State Railway roundhouse, with a westbound freight on the Gemunden to Frankfurt am Main line. Sadly the footb... (more)

These units are heading for being brought into the terminal by the crew. Dig that hat. Maybe someone out there can identify the gentleman.

100% ex-GO Transit. Three AMT trainsets composed of ex-GO Transit F59PH's and Hawker Siddeley cars lay over at Delson on the weekend in 2010. Unfortunately AMT trains no longer lay over at ... (more)

Single Soo unit works the CP's Duluth Yard as the city of Duluth rises up in the background. You would be hard pressed to recreate this scene today, as GP22ECO's dominate the bare bones operation ... (more)

A pair of Rio Grande GP30s lead the Provo Local through the industrial fallout of Geneva Steel in Vineyard, Utah. Not a trace of what you see remains today.

Minutes after sunrise, SP's Roper to Grand Junction freight emerges from the Jordan Narrows on July 6, 1991.

The CSX transfer job from Glenwood puts his train together in Conrail's Island Avenue yard.

Grinding up Edelstein Hill at milepost 136 just east of Edelstein, Illinois, is Santa Fe’s mainline local led by EMD GP30 No. 2723. A total of seven locomotives are working the train; trailing u... (more)

Before the stack trains, the little Suquehanna railroad was starving and would have gone broke. Attorney and railfan Walter Rich purchased it and little-by-little he added trackage and customers.... (more)

When CP first took delivery of their large SD9043MACs in late 1998 I heard they were operating through Thunder Bay so I went north over Thanksgiving weekend and was lucky to find the class unit si... (more)

Long long ago in a world far far away, Rio Grande SD40T-2 5371 was just another 'tunnel motor' working on the D&RGW. The 5371 would become the last originally numbered and painted Rio Grande locom... (more)