Back in 2001 the 2 Wells jobs worked days and nights. The day job made an Austin turn out of Wells, then the night job would make a Jackson turn. Here the 948 day job is westbound for Wells with e... (more)

The Alturas Turn is about to crest the grade up Howard's Gulch between Canby and Ambrose. From here, it should be just a couple of hours up the Modoc Line to home at Klamath Falls.

Seasonal traffic reductions and recession conditions in fall 1982 combined to require Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range to store some of their power at Proctor, MN. Their SD9/18 fleet may appear all th... (more)

An excursion train from Tillamook has just arrived at Banks, after a trip over the Oregon Coast Range. The local boys have come down to check out the train, and the engineer's daughter has come ou... (more)

On Thanksgiving morning, the SP's Staley Turn departs to switch sugar beet loaders on the Modoc Line.

In the mid-1970’s, a weekend visit to the small engine facility in Phillipsburg, New Jersey usually yielded one or two pairs of RS11’s, RSD12’s sandwiching a GP9B, and a T6. On this visit, t... (more)

DMIR 145 and 132 head up a string of stored power at Keenan, MN in October 1980. The two units are Phase 3 SD9s, with 145 featuring the newer arrowhead color scheme. 132 has the original scheme, m... (more)

On a snowy January morning, SP's Grants Pass Turn switches the Crowson Corporation mill on the south side of Ashland. No one knew it at the time, but in just six years the Siskiyou Line would be s... (more)

Espee's last Newberg Turn heads west on the Newberg Branch in Portland's southwest suburbs. The three SD9s on the point of the train will be left at McMinnville for Willamette & Pacific's use when... (more)

This is what the BN Denver locomotive terminal looked like in July of 1982. It will be 10+ years before the ubiquitous SD70MAC will take over, so everything is green, with a wide variety of EMD p... (more)

Except for the numbers that give away BN ownership, this could be a typical Great Northern scene at Brook Park, MN. BN is three months old, but they have already re-numbered the blue Geep and SD9.... (more)

An extra West Stayton Local passes a Christmas tree farm in Oregon's Willamette Valley. A mechanical refrigerator car is being taken a packing plant in Stayton to spot on speculation of getting a ... (more)

The owner and president of Dakota Southern Railway, Alex Huff (right) and one of his employees, pause a moment alongside Dakota Southern EMD SD9 No. 506 wearing a special scheme to celebrate the t... (more)

Dakota Southern EMD SD9 No. 506 wears a special scheme to celebrate the town of Oacoma’s centennial celebration in 1993. The former Milwaukee Road locomotive rests at Chamberlain, South Dakota, ... (more)

I&M Rail Link train 919 enters the yard in Nahant, IA returning from the IPSCO steel mill. This photo marks a turning point for me, as I used to hate having people in my photos as a die-hard rost... (more)