EL RENO OK Feb 4 1980 -- Rock Island GP9R 4489 is in for service. Also identifiable are GP7R 4441, GP7R 4454, SW1 531 and U33B 285. This is a view of the El Reno shop facility looking east-southea... (more)

An E44-powered freight slowly moves off the Columbia Branch, crossing Walnut Street and passing the 1877-built PRR station. Note the high trolley wire within the terminal area. No. 4421 was buil... (more)

An SP hogger has just turned a consist of new SD40T-2s, with the class locomotive in the lead.

Bell-bottom pants and gray, dusty GG-1s; two icons of the mid-1970s. We're standing on the old Cly station platform waiting on the American Freedom Train, which is bringing the general public tra... (more)

An empty coal train is led by one of the SD60 demonstrators. At this time the unit was leased to the BN, and was eventually renumbered GMTX9041, then GMTX9000.

UP 3557, SSW 9398, SP 9246 and SP 8710 go over the top of their train on Tehachapi Loop. The four unit helper set has just cleared tunnel 9, and the sound of 7 EMDs and 1 GE U-boat in run 8 was a... (more)

KANSAS CITY KS May 2 1982 -- Norfolk and Western SD35 1502 leads a UP mixed freight with the Kansas City skyline as a backdrop.

Almost eight years after the Conrail merger, there were still “patch jobs” wandering around the system. Here a GP38-2 in the drab austerity scheme leads a set of power out of the west end of A... (more)

Looking a lot like the CNW that preceded it, FRV 840 leads 2 other GP35's and a GP30 across the Butte Des Morts bridge in Menasha, WI in December of 1992. Like many other lines in Wisconsin, this ... (more)

The Dyers stone quarry has long been a major carload supplier along the former Reading Belt Line. On a crisp August morning, a set of fresh-looking Conrail power, four GP38-2’s and an SD40-2, ha... (more)

We're inside the long-gone Union Junction Tower at 2:44 p.m., with the op facing the Union Switch & Signal electro-pneumatic Model 14 interlocking machine, installed in 1935. The tower, built in ... (more)

We're about to climb the stairs at Union Junction and pay a visit to the op at shift change. Standing by the tower is the late H. A. Wilgis, who ran the restored GG-1 No. 4935 on its first revenu... (more)

NW2 No. 459 idles not far from downtown Seattle.

By 1985, not many Reading cast iron crossbucks were still in service. This one, guarding Elverson Road in Joanna, Pennsylvania, has little time left, as one of the final Grace Mine cleanout trains... (more)

Oakdale Tennessee was a division point of the second and third districts of the Southern now NS CNO&TP. Here we find the conductor of a northbound ballast train about to board his caboose.