In April 1974 U23B 6329 leads a U28C and U30CG west through Joliet with a mostly intermodal hotshot. The latter two units had been built for passenger service prior to Amtrak's takeover of those t... (more)

Santa Fe Dash 8-40BW 553 heads out of Tunnel 5 on Tehachapi Pass, past the west end of Cliff siding. Trailing units are SD45-2 5828 and SD40-2s 5139, 5207, 5116.

Four Western Pacific GP40's and a Burlington Northern GP40 on this southbound (timetable westbound) freight on the Highline near Keddie, California on January 09, 1979. No photographer listed on s... (more)

Note the Amfleet 1 coaches in the short-lived "lava lamp" livery behind the "Hippo"

Burlington Northern EMD F45 No. 6613 sits on the wye at the locomotive facility at Chicago & North Western’s yard in Butler, Wisconsin, in January 1984. This cowl was Great Northern No. 440, the... (more)

The war bonnet colors of ATSF EMD FP45 96 are striking in the late afternoon sun as the unit and SD45u 5320 drift downgrade after having helped an eastbound freight.

On a day when an F40/Amfleet set is substituting for the Turbo equipment indicated in Amtrak's timetable, the eastbound Empire State Express pulls into the station at Amsterdam, NY, on its way fro... (more)

In January 1995, three EMDs and four GEs, all in red and silver, pull an eastbound Santa Fe stack train over the many hogbacks between Sunshine and Winslow, AZ. The crew is approaching the end of ... (more)

Although we were hoping for a warbonnet on the point of the 199 train in Franklin Canyon, a freshly-painted F45 was okay.

As the power of an eastbound Santa Fe 971 circles the Loop, its rear loads continue to enter the Loop on the approach below. The train is circling the famous landmark just as the sun is setting, a... (more)

A three-car VIA LRC set running as an Ottawa-Montreal train pulls into the stop at Dorval, Quebec, in suburban Montreal. The LRC coaches found a long term home on VIA but the bug-eyed Bombardier l... (more)

With its paint still fresh and gleaming, one of Amtrak's leased Bombardier LRC sets makes an early morning stop at New London, CT, while running as Boston-New York train 151. The squat little LRC ... (more)

Two Burlington Northern SD40-2's lead a westbound autorack train over the Cutbank bridge.

A Union Pacific coal load storms up Logan Hill at Converse Junction. On the Antelope Mine lead a BNSF coal load prepares to depart, with a classic quartet of EMD DC traction motors....

An eastbound freight rolls across Goat Lick Trestle, Sheep Creek Trestle to the railroad, in Glacier National Park southeast of Essex.