A trio of Grand Trunk Western Geeps are seen leading a pair of VIA Rail SW1000s on a freight through South Holland. Tom Golden photo.

Soo Line 6240 leads an interesting mix of locomotives down Lake Hill in Milwaukee, WI in March of 1987. The train is probably a Lake States train heading for home rails. The siding the northbound ... (more)

A pair of brand new Frisco GP40-2s are seen on the move east in the middle of a Conrail freight on the Indiana Harbor Belt. Tom Golden photo.

Rounding the big curve at Ottertail, British Columbia, is Canadian Pacific’s Royal Canadian Pacific luxury train on September 13, 2002. The dapper train is pulled by a A-B-A set of covered wagon... (more)

CNW 6840 is crossing the KK River near 16th Street on Milwaukee's South Side in February of 1987. This line is still an important part of the UP, but the track and building on the left are long g... (more)

It looks like an RS3-powered Amtrak train, but actually it's an empty equipment draft leaving Boston's South Station for the Southampton Street coach yard. Amtrak 106, assigned as the South Statio... (more)

The Reading's famous Bee Line Service logo still looked pretty fresh on the side of a deadline stored Alco C630 at Collinwood in January 1981. By this time, Conrail was getting rid of Alco power a... (more)

In a meeting of East and West, workers at Burlington’s 23rd Street engine terminal in Denver couple up New York Central U25B 2535 and Q’s U28C 555 for the afternoon CB&Q-NYC pool train to Chic... (more)

My original reason for taking a camera to trackside in 1959 was the stirring sight and sound of a New Haven GP9, making a jack rabbit start on a Needham Branch commuter train. Problem was, the 12... (more)

A classic SP caboose brings up the back end of a local as it has just crossed the diamond at Joliet.

This is another example of a beautiful Northern built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the RF&P, number 610, the Governor Fitzhugh Lee. The order was for six locomotives, 607 - 612. I noticed... (more)

The 292-mile Ann Arbor Railroad was a subsidiary of the Detroit Toledo & Ironton RR from 1963 to 1970. Locomotive maintenance and repairs for both railroads was done at DT&I’s engine and shop fa... (more)

There must not have been too much traffic on Kellogg Boulevard, as my father was able to record this going away photo of the Rock Island train from the previous upload (FA-1m 136, F7a 107, and Eri... (more)