There’s a little problem in the Canadian National yard in Brockville, Ontario. It appears that two locomotives have tried to occupy the same switch simultaneously, a feat which has never success... (more)

CNW 4400 heads south with the Cornell wayfreight at Lake Hallie, north of Eau Claire, WI on the CNW's mainline from Eau Claire to Superior, WI. The train operated between Altoona and Cornell via C... (more)

Five snowplows at CN's Gordon yard, Moncton, New Brunswick.

Soo Line 4231 switches the dock at the Port of Milwaukee on Jones Island in July of 1993.

An eastbound on the main track meets a westbound lead by MP2138 in a soggy downtown Big Spring, TX. around the first week in September, 1980. Water from heavy rains west of town have funneled... (more)

What a Recession Looks Like

A visit to Southern Pacific's primary yard and shop complex in Los Angeles, Taylor Yard (located just north of downtown), during the 1973-1975 recessi... (more)

A young lass cleans the windshield of this F40PH at Jasper in an era before wearing PPE was common. She is certainly no aged CN machinist...

Spring is barely in evidence on May 15, 1972 as Milwaukee Road GP9 211 accelerates across the James River bridge at Yankton, S.D., with an eastbound for Sioux City, Iowa. Dating from 1875, this li... (more)

Burlington Northern “Expediter” intermodal No. 41 is about to clatter across the Chicago Central diamonds at East Dubuque, Illinois, on March 10, 1991. This very unique track arrangement is at... (more)

SD45 #950 passes CNW's distinctive semaphores on an extremely foggy day in October of 1984. Pre-digital, you crossed your fingers that the exposure was correct!

A Santa Fe work train was helping clear the mess following a sideswipe accident at the east end of Esperanza siding involving an eastbound piggybacker into the side of a train entering the east en... (more)

It's been several years since the merger but MILW 165 is still plying home rails as it take a freight up Lake Hill in April of 1987. Several Conrail units are helping lift the tonnage.

SOO 701 gets a little attention at the Shops yard facility in Nort Fond Du Lac. Both the SOO and later, the WC, were very friendly at the time, and it was easy to get permission to photograph loco... (more)

WC 590 is ready to depart the quarry in Valders with a load of limestone for a break wall being constructed in Lake Michigan at Manitowoc.

Grand Trunk Western streamlined 4-8-4 steam locomotive no. 6409 leading an eastbound passenger train out of Chicago's Dearborn Station on February 2, 1952. Photograph by Wallace W. Abbey, collecti... (more)