A hot BNSF intermodal train runs through East Arkansas on it's way to Marion, Arkansas where there ws an intermodal yard on BNSF at the time in 1999 using an all AT&SF consist including the lead G... (more)

Former Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) GP60M 105 and GE C40-8 7448 sit in Turell, Arkansas on the Thayer Sub waiting for a train to pass ahead of it. ARSF 105 was built for the Santa Fe... (more)

Listed as 80-tons this unit would probably be a 65-ton carbody unit with a huge slap of steel resting on the frame, as a "real" 80-tonner is longer. In any case they have a Locomotive B... (more)

The other side of the story. Well the other side of this unit. Lest anyone think this is an H10-44, the overhang was installed by the intrepid crews who didn't want sun in their eyes. I think F... (more)

In the final paint scheme.

Racing south along with rush hour traffic a nicely matched set of Amfleet "airliners on wheels" is keeping up and perhaps gaining a little. Hey, I used to own one of those Nissan 510s!

On April 17 of 1977, I was at Princeton Junction, NJ when this coal train (I presume empty, and I presume a coal train) came by making quite a racket. The second unit was an ex Jersey Central SD35... (more)

VAUGHN NM Sept 3 1983 — Santa Fe C30-7 8165 passes a signal with a TOFC train. GE built the unit (s/n 44079) in December 1982 with black on white number boards, a roof-mounted air conditioning u... (more)

FRVR 4508 approaches the yard in Fond Du Lac, WI in January of 1993. Overshadowed by its' more glamorous neighbor, the Wisconsin Central, the FRVR was a favorite of mine and other C&NW fans.

High above the Shasta Valley, the northbound Coast Starlight crosses Dry Canyon in summer 1994. An Amtrak engineer once told me that if the signals were all green and the train was making track sp... (more)

In 1987-1988, Southern Pacific closed the Modoc Line to through traffic. If the Modoc had been open, this EURGM would have been closing in on Alturas. Instead, the train is crossing Dry Canyon Via... (more)

The C&O 4008 leads the Georgia Washington at Lee Hall, eighteen miles out of Newport News. We are now following the C&O on its westerly course paralleling the James River to Richmond, VA on Se... (more)

BN 1882 and 1874 sit side by side between assignments at the engine tracks at Tacoma, WA. Both are of NP heritage and feature steam bells on the short hoods, an NP signature.

BN 205 sports a fresh coat of paint at Auburn Yard, Auburn, WA. The SW1200 was built as NP 146 in February 1957, and would survive the BNSF merger becoming BNSF 3540.

BN 9790 pokes its nose out of the diesel shop at Auburn, WA, a former Northern Pacific facility located between Seattle and Tacoma. A close look shows that this former BN passenger F7 still wears ... (more)