The weather the past week has had mornings filled with fog making the Iowa landscape fairly frosty. I lucked into the Iowa River heading north to do interchange work with the CN near Ackley. The p... (more)

In June 1984, with the shadows in the Alhambra Valley getting longer and longer, six 4-axle EMDs lead a westbound Santa Fe pig across Muir Trestle in Martinez, CA. In a month or so, Santa Fe will ... (more)

A Reading freight with interchange traffic for the Western Maryland heads for Hagerstown, MD, behind a GP30/GP30/C424 lashup. The Reading and WM pooled power and crews on the Lurgan line between H... (more)

AKDN GP30 #3018 is seen here sitting in Ville Platte, LA.

B&O 6913 and C&O 3569 are seen wying a Chessie System passenger special in Michigan. The train would return west to Barr Yard in Riverdale, IL. Tom Golden photo.

GSMR GP30 #2467 leads the Tuckaseegee River excursion Eastbound to Downtown Dillsboro. The Railroad's steam locomotive, #1702, is on the other end and will lead the Westbound return trip to Brsyon... (more)

Fall foliage excursion arrives in Lahaska with evidence of recent track work along the right-of-way.

After completing its trip around the Tehachapi Loop, a westbound Santa Fe train approached Woodford.

An eastbound Santa Fe train negotiates the horseshoe curve east of Woodford as it approaches the Tehachapi Loop.

A westbound Santa Fe manifest descends the Tehachapi grade at Keene, California. GP30/GP35 power was quite common in this era.

Lake Superior Railroad Museum's Soo GP30 700 is teamed up with FP7A 2500A and caboose 1 to move 19 stored propane tank cars that are being placed back in service for the winter season. The museum'... (more)

NKP 900 rests in Bellevue, OH.

Switch crew serve a downtown customer (Macon Telegraph?) on trackage that would be removed a few years later. That is Southern's mainline to Atlanta above 1328.

MILW road units await their next assignment.

If only the Rock Island would've had GP30s.... Having completed it's nighttime switching, AOK GP30 2402 along with companion 2411 and B40-8W 578 on an adjacent track are shut down for the day o... (more)