A westbound crosses the BNSF diamonds at Rochelle, IL.

In the years before LED displays, the Rock Island used these low-tech tail signs hung on the rear car to help commuters identify their trains at Chicago's La Salle Street station.

A trio of high cab GP39-2 794, 797, 795, are running south with an empty or train. Between the Smelter and the Loadout in Copperton.

GLLX 4428 EMD GP9 sits in the Steam Railroad Institutes yard that goes in to the Great Lakes Leasing/Central yard in Owosso Michigan

GTW 4920 and IC 1032 lead L546 on a rare daylight run of the local from Centralia, IL into the Metro East.

Denver Rock Island Railroad's #553 (SW8) runs across Packinghouse Road as it heads to a customer.

Another of my dads, Tom Ellis' pictures, with me as a five year old standing by the crossing sign, taking pictures with my toy camera. UP 3674 with steal coils from Geneva Steel. Has a pretty cool... (more)

Soo Line SD40B 6450 at the St. Paul Diesel House January 1991. The 6450 was built as Burlington Northern 6302 in October 1971 and later renumbered to BN 7600. After a wreck in 1981, the BN rebuilt... (more)

St. Maries yard
After switching the PotlatchDeltic mill on the west side of town, St. Maries River Railroad SW1200 No. 501 rolls slowly through the empty yard at St. Maries on the way b... (more)

Royal Gorge in the Royal Gorge. Unquestionably one of America's most scenic tourist excursions, the Royal Gorge Railroad in Cañon City, Colorado makes several trips a day through the geographic f... (more)

A Alco RSD 12 Utah Railway 600 rests at the Roads Martin yard in Helper UT in the summer of 1980, This is a Former B&O unit still in the roads colors. It would be part of the helper set for the ... (more)

Honorably retired. Clinchfield dolled up some their old cabs and sold them at auction. To me that shows something so lacking in the world today, a touch of class. What a crummy Christmas gift t... (more)

The Apache exits its own trackage and rounds the curve onto the BNSF at Holbrook. With a decent size train to deliver to the BNSF, the crew would have a pick-up as well, including a string of coal... (more)

One of the evening parade of westbound "Dinkys".