Bluebonnet 2854 (GP39-2) works the BNSF yard in Denver, Colorado. Catching Bluebonnets is getting harder and harder as units are either removed for storage or repainted into the H3 paint scheme.

Why all the fanfare? WSOR 35th Anniversary unit 3928 gets ready to depart Plymouth, WI as it makes the first run of train L243 over the recently rehabbed line to Sheboygan Falls on an absolutely g... (more)

Twelve years after the Delaware & Hudson inherited the Reading’s GP39-2’s, one of them is still wearing its Reading colors. It’s seen here with a D&H GP38-2 and a National Railway Leasing F4... (more)

The rest of the GNRR's power handling the southbound road freight and necessitated splitting up 30 loads of corn interchanged from CSX. Here the first 15 loads cross over very light COVID-19 rus... (more)

The daily local to Waynesville returns to Canton after switching out Evergreen Packaging's bleachboard coating mill in Waynesville, NC.

WSOR 35th Anniversary unit 3928 has a cab full of crew and dignitaries as it makes the first run of train L243 over the recently rehabbed line to Sheboygan Falls on an absolutely gorgeous November... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

With a solid train of product from the salt mines on the Genesee & Wyoming, the Delaware & Hudson’s “salt train” follows the Canisteo River east on the Southern Tier line at Cameron, New Yor... (more)

At 10 mph, the results aren't very dramatic, but it's always fun to see a train break through some plow ridges. An eastbound TC&W train is moving covered hoppers out of storage on this former Minn... (more)

The prairie is desolate and cold on a windy February afternoon as a Twin Cities & Western train brings covered hoppers out of storage on the Minnesota Prairie Line.

The Twin Cities & Western works through frigid conditions to move some covered hoppers from storage at the western end of the Minnesota Prairie Line. The 2301 is a former Kennecott Copper Mining l... (more)

One of a kind, Kennecott Copper had one standard cab GP39-2 905. I remember going out with my dad when he took this picture, when I was eleven. It was the day after Thanksgiving, and we were exci... (more)

On the return trip back to the home base of Kelly Lake, BNSF 2957 dims the ditch lights to meet a northbound CN freight on the double track section of the CN Missabe sub.

For a time in 1979, several Delaware & Hudson GP39-2’s showed up in Conrail service. A few Conrail B23-7’s were spotted on D&H trains, so I believe that these were loans for evaluation, especi... (more)