Because a train is stalled ahead due to a UDE, the hotshot LABRF's path to the next crew change at Klamath Falls is blocked. While the train waits it out, the conductor is going to the Mt Hebron ... (more)

The Penn Central merger was just six months old when this Pennsy SD-45 showed up in Montreal on the daily freight from Massena, NY. For years, the power was two, four-axle units, typically RS-3's... (more)

Penn Central SD45 #6230 on the other end of the GM10B test train, (the business end seen in photo ID 690368). A Walter Schopp original Koda... (more)

On a fine fall morning, a drag of lumber empties heads west on the Modoc Line. The train is descending the grade between Sage Hen and Likely.

WC 6505 is about to duck under Hwy F as it crests Byron Hill in August of 1992. This scene, located south of Fond Du Lac , WI has changed dramatically since this slide was taken. CN has replaced t... (more)

SOU train coming of Huey P Long Bridge at East Bridge Jct

As two trains meet a tail end crew member of the eastbound is on the platform of the caboose to inspect the passing train. It was not uncommon for the EL to run short freights on the Southern Tie... (more)

Rio Grande EMD SD45 5319, GP40's 3059,3068,3051 and GP30 3010 are in the lead through Plainview, Colorado. Photo from my slide collection, no photographers name listed.

SD45 5385 and companions have cleared downtown Flagstaff, and are pouring it on to get their train up to speed. Though not on the time table. I have heard this area of East Flagstaff referred to a... (more)

Erie Lackawanna power began showing up on D&H freights in 1968 when the two roads came under N&W control through Dereco.

An EMD SD45 leads an SP westbound out of tunnel 5. This is the sight of much damage caused by the 7.3 earthquake of 1952. Tunnel 5 was contorted and tunnel 4 destroyed, the latter being bypassed a... (more)

A southbound freight accelerates past the under construction Martin Drake Power Station.

The smog from the basin has set in. As a Santa Fe train works it way up the mountain, toward Tehachapi.

A westbound freight train on the Shasta Route rolls through the reverse curves near the former siding of Bolam. The train is running along the northwest flank of Mt. Shasta.

WR1 (Wilkes Barre, PA - Rouses Point, NY) and its return, RW-6 were the daily manifests to and from Rouses Point. RW-6 was called "The Paper Train" because a large part of its consist w... (more)