MILW Little Joe E76 powers up and leads three SD40-2s (3009, 3018, 3000) eastward out of St. Regis, Montana across the namesake St. Regis River on August 9, 1973. Following the river was the Nor... (more)

After Milwaukee Road abandoned its western electrification and took down the catenary, Extra 21 East with four SD-40-2s recharges the brake line after making a pick-up at Avery, Idaho on July 19, ... (more)

Where electrics formerly ruled, Milwaukee Road Extra 21 East was reaching for the sky near Adair, Idaho on July 19, 1978 as it climbed the 1.7% grade toward St. Paul Pass and Montana in the Bitte... (more)

Just after putting a two-car train away in the yard and spotting caboose No. 10286, the crew of SD9 No. 6223 have put the locomotive to rest inside the spiffy looking wooden roundhouse at Leadvill... (more)

Grain empties head back to the prairies for another load.

The beginning and the end of an era on the Rio Grande: New EMD GP60 No. 3154 leads the CHOAT through Provo Yard on Aug. 18, 1990. D&RGW 3154-3156 are essentially Southern Pacific locomotives, buil... (more)

In April 2005, a large 745-ton Belleli vessel was shipped from Houston, Texas, to Denver, Colorado, using the “world’s largest railroad car,” Schnabel CEBX No. 800. The heavy load was going ... (more)

Is it just me or do both inner wheels seem smaller?

Photo taken by Glen Fisher, my father-in-law. He is is a railway consultant and was involved in the BC Rail Tumbler Ridge electrification during the early 1980s. Here BCOL 6002 & BCOL 6005 are sto... (more)

Rio Grande's Subdivision 6 mainline bisects the Utah County city of Lehi with broad curves at either end of town. Photographing trains in the mornings on the east side of the track was challenging... (more)

As crews lay temporary trackage across a large parking at the Los Angeles County Fairgounds ("Fairplex") to move Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4014 from display to the mainline, in order to haul it to C... (more)

A new slug has entered the world of railroading. Built on-site at TEMCO grain facility in Tacoma, from the old SW1200 219, which sat unused for years in this very spot. Originally this was the N... (more)

What are these guys doing? They are closing one of only a few manually hand-cranked swing bridges still in operation in America, the South River Drawbridge. Built in 1910 and formerly part of th... (more)

Photo taken by Glen Fisher, my father-in-law. He is is a railway consultant and was involved in the BC Rail Tumbler Ridge electrification during the early 1980s. Here we see a pair of BC Rail GF6C... (more)

Photo taken by Glen Fisher, my father-in-law. He is is a railway consultant and was involved in the BC Rail Tumbler Ridge electrification during the early 1980s. This shot shows two of the GF6C lo... (more)