Power for a one of the Coal Strip trains sits on the ready track at Portage,WI. while the train is unloaded at the new Columbia facility.

The two LS&I U25C's arrived in this rather striking scheme(at least compared to the solid chocolate scheme)and for the most part they worked as a team early on in there careers. Here is 2500 leadi... (more)

As railroad photographers, too often we zone in entirely on the locomotives, the trains, or the infrastructure—and ignore the only reason these very things exist and operate: flesh and blood railr... (more)

LS&I U25C 2501 is seen on lease to the DT&I. With the close of the shipping season on the Great Lakes the LS&I would lease out what ever units it could. From my slide collection by KEN BORG.

What to do while waiting for a Nickel Plate steam excursion over Horseshoe Curve? Why, shoot a Pennsy U-boat wit a Penn Central freight. Believed to be Cresson, corrections welcome. This is fro... (more)

Only 7 roads bought U25C's new, a total of 113. One of Pennsy's 20 runs light with a U28C just south of Enola Yard.

An outbound set of L&N power--led by U25C 1507--waits at Norton for in inbound quartet of GP9s with a time freight connection from Bluefield. The L&N and N&W shared this facility from 1891 until 1... (more)

From my slide collection from an unknown photographer.

A southbound unit coal train crawls upgrade at Blackwood, VA. This route was abandoned in 1986, but it's still in place--and owned by Norfolk Southern for several years. It appears unlikely it wil... (more)

Northbound L&N Cumberland Valley Division manifest number 66 rolls out of the north end of 6,244-foot Hagans Tunnel, on the seldom-photographed Kentucky side. The tunnel--L&N's longest--was comple... (more)

LS&I 2501, 2304, 2300 arriving at the east end of Eagle Mills yard with 120 empties. The LS&I was a riot of color in the 80's with a few units remaining in the solid "ore dust brown" along with q... (more)

A pair of then-new GE U25Cs has just arrived at Corbin off the Knoxville & Atlanta Division with a freight from Etowah, TN. The three head end crew members (engineer, fireman and head brakeman) ar... (more)

Conductor Clyde Robbins (left) confers with Assistant Trainmaster Ray Allen at Loyall as Extra 1511 South--a Lynch Turn---completes a set-off of common hoppers.

Engineer Morgan Calhoun smiles at the photographer as he rolls into the junction point of Baxter with four U25Cs in his command. Ralph Nader wouldn't be too happy with the Corvair waiting on the r... (more)

A Merna to Jac Mac (Georgia) unit coal train rolls northbound toward Corbin on a dreary early April day in 1966. This run normally was handled by four of the big U-boats, because of their 16-notch... (more)