Here a U50 sits at Council Bluffs and it sure looks like it's seen better days. Photo taken by George Cockle.

A shot of a U50C taken at North Platte. Photo taken by Joseph Quinn.

Built in UP's Omaha shops in 10/61 as Coal Turbine units 8080 and 8080b. 8080 was originally Union Pacific Alco PA-1 #607; 8080B was originally Great Northern GE electric #5018, purchased by U... (more)

In April 2005, a large 745-ton Belleli vessel was shipped from Houston, Texas, to Denver, Colorado, using the “world’s largest railroad car,” Schnabel CEBX No. 800. The vessel was loaded at ... (more)

This is a diesel hydraulic with the really weird wheel arrangement of B-2-B. Nice big comfortable cab. I wonder how it handles curves. As in some places in Europe locomotives in Japan are often... (more)

#13 was an early morning mail train out of Newark to Altoona, my usual method of getting there. At Harrisburg, these Baldwin beasts were assigned the run to Pittsburgh. The "T" in the model design... (more)

The company the photographer held an assembly-line job with went on strike for a 25-cent raise in September 1951. That was all the temptation he needed to climb aboard PRR train #13, an overnight... (more)

Soo Line no. 397 taking a spin on the turntable at Shoreham Yard in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in August 1962. The locomotive was one of four center cab Baldwin DT-6-6-2000s acquired from the Duluth,... (more)

UP Turbine 3 at Council Bluffs, Iowa.

UP GP-35 762 guides two ugly-duckling GE 4500GETL 4500-hp units 60 and 60B eastward on a train into Cheyenne, Wyo yard as a C&S SD-9 crosses overhead ahead of the train.

Eighteen thousand horsepower from three GF6Cs take an AAR Lubrication Test Vehicle (measuring track friction) across the Murray River Bridge just west of Tumbler Ridge townsite.

#110, the class EL1A boxcab set, waits for work under the wires.

Class EL-2B #125 makes a move under the wires.

Eastbound Virginian Rwy coal loads working upgrade near Clark Gap, WV in February 1957. Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.

In the dead line at Hollidaysburg, PA in 1964 are some Pennsy Baldwin Centipede types. Because of their 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement you might call these the 'Big Boys' of dieseldom. Only 55 were b... (more)