After a 28 mile descent from Soldier Summit, SP's Minntac to Geneva iron ore train throttles up for a short section of level track approaching the Thistle Tunnels on August 11, 1996.

Rio Grande SW1200 No. 133 spots eight loads of newsprint at the Newspaper Agency Corporation warehouse at 5th South and 5th West in Salt Lake City. There is little to recognize at this location to... (more)

The Middletown & New Jersey switches at Slate Hill, N.Y., passing the Junkomologist located at the U.S. 6 crossing. This end of the M&NJ no longer sees revenue service and was most recently used f... (more)

Orin Iron Horse Race......Raw horsepower against gravity. AC against DC. The 5 DC motors have slowly been overtaking the New AC power since leaving Converse Junction. The two trains will end the r... (more)

Q317 works west on the Mountain Sub, crossing over the viaduct in Cumberland.

B&O GP38 2107 pulls a cut of coal cars at Westport. This was the last B&O blue locomotive to operate on CSX. Sadly, it was desecrated with a yellow nose in 1996. The Spring Garden Drawbridge, lea... (more)

Union Pacific and LMS (Locomotive Management Services) GE units lead Southern Pacific's Intermountain Power to Skyline coal empty along the scenic Pleasant Valley Branch on a very chilly Dec. 10, ... (more)

Chessie-painted GP40 6854 rolls by the old ACL station in Petersburg, VA on CSX's North End Subdivision late one summer evening in 1995.

D&H 266 passes through Bethlehem, PA on Conrail's Lehigh Line.

Three things in this photo that are no longer here: Ex-B&O GP40 6621, ex-Seaboard GP40 6775 and the General Motors Baltimore assembly plant at Penn Mary. The plant closed in 2005 and was later de... (more)

With four empties retrieved at Burton Lumber on Main Street, SP's 259 Drag prepares to duck under Interstate 15 on the Sugar House Spur in South Salt Lake on July 21, 1994. The dilapidated Bennett... (more)

Santa Fe's first GP60Ms bask in the sunshine at Corwith Yard as they await their first revenue move after delivery from EMD. Tom Kidd photo.

Rather amazing that this L&N lettering continued to exist years after the merger. The haters somehow missed it.

K952 rounds the curve between QN tower and F Interlocking while an Amtrak yard move occurs on the track below.

Alaska RR northbound empty coal train with freight on head end picked up both in Seward and Portage along the Turnagain Arm near Rainbow