CN 8926 leads a SB manifest through Gilman. Still neat to see the old coal towers still standing in the background.

The Gilman local pulling for headroom after returning from Champaign.

The Gilman local switching the TP&W interchange.

NS trackage rights train rounding the curve off of the CN Gilman Sub onto the CN Chicago Sub at Gilman, IL.

UP's SP transfer job waits in the D yard to depart SP's Taylor yard back to UP's East Yard near downtown Los Angeles

power from UP's short lived Cima to San Pedro, CA ore train was laying over at Harbor Belt Lines yard in San Pedro while the ore train was being dumped nearby at the Port of LA bulk facility

Short and hot from Green Bay
An ultra-short Chicago and North Western freight approaches the Brown Deer Road overpass at Granville, Wisconsin, on a nice October 19, 1986. I never did fi... (more)

Ex-C&IM SD20 #83, now owend by Port Inland, takes another load of limestone 6 miles down to the Harbor.

BN 6244 tries to stay ahead of a spring thunder storm as it hurries an eastbound freight along the Mississippi River at Alma, WI. The train was a daily freight operating between Dayton Bluff Yard,... (more)

CNW 876, an SD40 and CNW 954 an SD45 roll an eastbound grain train over the Chippewa River at Eau Claire, WI on the Twin Cities-Chicago mainline. The train will stop in nearby Altoona for a crew c... (more)

A 40-year old look at a minor Alabama rail center.

In this photo from my collection BN 4193 leads two more ex NP RS-11"s and a SP&S FA on a westbound manifest at Pasco.

Southwest Portland Cement's operation in Victorville, California, includes a rail operation between the processing plant and Bell Mountain Quarry. The railroad, built as the Mojave Northern, feat... (more)

Back in the pre-C40-8 1980s, CSX used small B-Bs (often U18Bs and GP16s) to pick up sand loads at the pits east of Montgomery and head for Williams Brothers in Atlanta. Some days it was quite a l... (more)

IHB SD20 2923 teams up with a brand new six axle genset, leading NA7 east through LaGrange.