A view of the Ocean Avenue crossing in Patchogue finds FA cab car 614, wearing a coat of fresh paint, impeding the progress of the kids in the pony car. LIRR 614 was built for the Spokane, Portlan... (more)

Both loaded coal trains here at Black Thunder Junction are led by new units. One month old C&NW 8678 was built in April, and BN 9429 was built the month before. The C&NW train was loaded at Jacobs... (more)

It's transition time at the LIRR Morris Park shops, as the new EMD GP38-2 order will send the leased BAR GP's home, and LIRR 200-221 will also be moved off the property as well.

Conrail RDC's in MTA livery headed to Poughkeepsie pull up to the former New York Central station at Peekskill, NY. Metro North would take over this operation in 1983.

LIRR 256 takes priority over the "Z" at the South Ocean Avenue crossing in Patchogue, NY. in this 1979 view. By this time, PD tower was showing it's age, and in 2006 the tower would be c... (more)

A chilly January day finds the Iowa Interstate making a delivery to the Union Pacific.

Westbound at Archibold, OH

This westbound is rolling into the evening sun just east of Pacific, MO. The UP/MP Jefferson City Sub is just out of the frame to the left here.

At this time this NYS&W boxcar was used for storage space at the Little Ferry roundhouse. The car was scrapped a few years later.

This westbound is departing Roslyn for Jamaica. The LIRR 615 cab car is a former SP&S FA-1.

An empty Missouri Pacific coal train with a DB equipped 6000 series leader is seen from the Cahokia Airport overpass just south of Valley Junction, IL.

A westbound local climbs Arlington Hill as seen from the old wooden bridge that was removed shortly thereafter. The bridge was replaced by a grade crossing which crosses the tracks about where the... (more)

LIRR 274 on the Montauk Branch has just departed the Great River station on it's way to Patchogue.

Erie Mining Company's daily run to Taconite Harbor is out and running on this fall day with a beautiful A-B-B-B-A set of F units.

Train APLA5X on what is now called the Blair Sub. is climbing Arlington Hill about 11 miles short of arriving at Fremont, NE.