After dropping its train of 24 privately-owned passenger cars at the station in San Diego, the power for the AARPCO Convention excursion train moved north to the wye at CP Cumbres, at the summit o... (more)

Santa Fe EMD GP60M No. 104 leads a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe intermodal train past the milepost 27 semaphore on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision main line at Woodlin east of T... (more)

At 3:15 p.m. on August 20, 1988, an eastbound Santa Fe trailer train, led by AT&SF EMD F45 No. 5975, drops downgrade off Edelstein Hill just west of Chillicothe, Illinois.

Santa Fe EMD SD45 No. 5341 is flanked by EMD GP7u No. 2013 and GE C30-7 8057 in front of the diesel house at the railroad’s Corwith Yard locomotive facility at Corwith, Illinois, on December 5, ... (more)

A Eastbound goes through East Williams Junction in the fall of 1988. Photo taken from my Friend Dons Airplane

An eastbound Santa Fe piggyback train flies past a trackside pond just west of Leeds, Illinois, on the morning of May 30, 1992. Powering the train is EMD GP50 No. 3811, followed by an A-B-B set of... (more)

Chicago & North Western EMD GP40 No. 5534 and an older EMD GP7, sit in front of the depot at Spooner, Wisconsin, on the railroad’s Eau Claire to Superior line on September 19, 1991.

At 3:40 p.m. on August 20, 1988, A westbound Santa Fe freight climbs Edelstein Hill east of Edelstein, Illinois. The train is led by AT&SF EMD FP45 No. 5990, painted in the doomed red and yellow S... (more)

Canyon Diablo. A westbound Makes a set out at west Canyon Diablo in the fall of 1988. This photo was taken from my friend Dons airplane You will note the pilers from past bridges down in the ... (more)

Santa Fe EMD GP30 No. 2723 leads a westbound freight around Houlihan’s Curve at milepost 133 just west of Chillicothe, Illinois, on the afternoon of May 1, 1988. Six other Santa Fe EMD 4-axle un... (more)

'Last Full Moon On The Right'

With the days left of this sentinel of the high desert measured in mere days, one of the final semaphores on the New Mexico Department of Transpor... (more)

Santa Fe’s 791 train flies across the Illinois Route 17 overpass between Ancona and Reading, Illinois, on the afternoon of May 15, 1993.

The growing shadows at Bridge 4 in Abo Canyon, New Mexico are telling us that it’s time to begin the long hike back to the car. One last eastbound appeared before we left, a 35-car TOFC train le... (more)

At 7:31 a.m. on May 15, 1993, an eastbound Santa Fe intermodal train speeds through Toluca, Illinois, led by Super Fleet GE B40-8W No. 517.

A Red and Yellow C30-7 leads a westbound pig train past the cement plant at Nelson AZ on a fall day in 1989. this shot was taken from my friends airplane. This is the Seligman west Sub. note the... (more)