The westbound is pulling with a rebuild in the bankrupt blue looking good. The train is crossing the BN Barstow sub seen left. Today single mains of BNSF and IAIS are connected here by switches.

A Rock Island track gang clears the diamond with the BN while a westbound approaches on the other main in the distance. Bankrupt blue has come to MOW equipment too.

Work continues to open the mainline at Walcott after a broken rail led to a derailment the weekend of Labor Day, 1977. Hulcher crews assist in the cleanup, putting the spilled ballast to good use... (more)

Work continues to open the mainline at Walcott after a broken rail led to a derailment the weekend of Labor Day, 1977. Hulcher and Rock crews made good use of the spilled ballast.

Portrait of a 1906 Baldwin product, a native of North Carolina.

Class C Shay locomotive #9 is under steam at the 1977 Midwest Old Thresher's Reunion. It was recently refurbished and serves on the Georgetown Loop.

Oh Shay can you see?

It's a race! Engine 2 departs on the 3-foot gauge of the MCRR, passing alongside stored Mark Twain Zephyr cars.

On the 3-foot gauge of the Midwest Central loop track, Engine 2 pulls a trainload of guests at the 1977 Old Thresher's Reunion right after a downpour. This engine ran for years with a defective b... (more)

Rock Island F7(A) 116 takes a turn through the washrack at the engine facility .

The NS&T was the last survivor of Canada's true Interurban systems, and lasted until 1959 operating on the Niagara peninsula. This MOW car is a forerunner to today's snorkel apparatus used in ove... (more)

The first scenes recorded outside the U.S. by John, on his first trip to Canada September 6-7, 1953, were at the NS&T yard which was a CN property.

This CN switcher was working the US side of Niagara Falls when it was photographed drifting by. Looks like it has a restricting signal. Location is the same as photo #304364 in this database, if... (more)

This CN switcher was working the US side of Niagara Falls when it was photographed.

The Capitol Limited is shown at Grand Central in slide #1 of the three posted here recently. They were all taken on an August day in 1964, at about 9am, as the tower clock reveals. This land tod... (more)