With its career on the IHB nearing a close, SD20 2920 shoves hard on a cut of cars at the east end of Blue Island Yard. The presence of smoke just proves that she's going to work hard to the very ... (more)

LIRC military extra, JCN026, passes by a freight in Columbus Yard. The train will go north to Edinburgh and then west to Camp Atterbury. The train sitting is led by LIRC 3002, the Honoring Vets SD... (more)

An ex-Seaboard Air Line SDP35 rests with some coal and cement hoppers at the CEMEX facility in Victorville.

Southwestern Portland Cement SDP35 411 sits at CEMEX's Victorville Cement Plant. This is one of three surviving SDP35s, having been built as Seaboard Air Line 1111. I'm not sure if this unit is st... (more)

An SD40-2 fills-in for the usual second B30-7 on the Montgomery-bound return leg of local 746.

CP SD40-2 no. 5646 and mate arrive in CP's Coquitlam Yard on a transfer from Vancouver, BC with a cut of BC Rail cars on the front of the train. The eastbound train will be switched here with cont... (more)

The West Point Route (A&WP and WofA) between Atlanta and Montgomery was dominated by GP40s/40-2s for many years. Starting around 1967, WP/GA upgraded their fleet of early geeps with 40s/40-2s. W... (more)

A relatively short train off the barge in Whittier wraps itself around the curve at Rainbow on a beautiful Fall afternoon. All of the tanks are empty, brought up on the barge for a new, to Anchora... (more)

CNW 6812 leads a westbound freight towards Rodell, WI, location of a passing siding east of Fall Creek. It will head into the siding for a meet before finishing its trip into Altoona, about 10 mil... (more)

CNW 1674 prepares to enter N. Fond du Lac yard in February of 1974. Fran Weiner image from my collection.

Orphaned by the Milwaukee Road out in the Puget Sound Region when service was cut on March 15, 1980, SW1 no. 878 left Milwaukee's roster and was sold to Weyerhaeuser Co. This photo was taken 4 mon... (more)

A group of Santa Fe SD26's on the deadline at Barstow, California on December 27, 1985.

MILW 164 round the curved Mine Creek Trestle on its climb up Snoqualmie Pass with an eastbound dead freight, using a mix of SD40-2s and SD10s in this formerly electrified area.

MILW 164 rolls a dead freight east on Pacific Coast Ry. (BN) trackage along the Cedar River between Renton and Maple Valley, WA as it heads its dead freight toward the climb up Snoqualmie Pass.