On Halloween 1992, George H.W. Bush made a last-ditch effort for re-election in the 1992 Presidential campaign against Bill Clinton with a train trip through the Wisconsin countryside. The Preside... (more)

A pair of Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2 helper sets rests on the yard tracks adjoining the Essex station on a bright, snowy day at Essex, Montana, Montana, on March 3, 1989.

Soo Line SW1200 no. 324 handles switching duties at Irvine Yard in Chippewa Falls, WI on a cool January 1973 afternoon. Delivered in black with duluxe gold striping, the unit fits well into the sn... (more)

IC 8075, a Paducah rebuilt GP10 featuring frog eye headlights, a Mars light, ox yoke air filters and quad exhaust stacks leads a freight south out of Markham Yard through Homewood, IL. It is fitti... (more)

One of CP Rail's famous yellow wide vision cabooses brings up the rear of a westbound freight as it rolls by the speeder shed and station in a snow storm on (US) Presidents Day weekend in February... (more)

The head end crew of the Canadian has given the okay to a passing freight train on Kicking Horse Pass and will soon be back on board their train to continue into Lake Louise station and on to Banf... (more)

Milwaukee Road FM switcher 731 idles with a pair of F7s at Janesville, WI in September 1972. This unit features the steam locomotive inspired cab roof extension over the end of the cab as well as ... (more)

Milwaukee Road received some of the earliest EMD SD40-2s after foregoing SD40s in favor of a handful of SD45s. Originally delivered in the 3000 series they were the last engine model delivered wit... (more)

The Jordan spreader crew is spending the day clearing snow in St. Luc Yard. The 2400 H.P. of the Trainmaster is more than enough to get the job done. The Trainmasters usually were assigned to tr... (more)

Erie-Lackawanna Alco C424 2415 w-BAR GP7 62 at Marion, Ohio.

New C&NW C40-8 8524 leads a loaded coal train out of the Powder River Basin on August 28, 1989.

A Conrail caboose hop rolls through East Penn Junction, Pennsylvania on a May afternoon. The former Reading yard here is gone, as is the brick tower that once stood close to where I am standing. N... (more)

Stored DT&I GP35,s and GP38's on the deadline at Flat Rock, Michigan on February 12, 1983. The DT&I GP35's didn't last long on the GTW.

On a rainy May afternoon, a Delaware & Hudson Potomac Yard train pulls through East Penn Junction, Pennsylvania as it departs Allentown yard. Waiting to get clearance to enter the yard is a nine c... (more)

Careening through Ethel
Santa Fe’s 188 train slams through Ethel, Missouri, at 1:11 p.m. on June 16, 1990 with three new EMD GP60Ms leading the way. The third locomotive in the consist ... (more)