A pair of CN RS-18's switch the small yard in Coteau, Quebec in May of 1988. Even though I didn't speak French, the crew still invited me on board to ride/switch with them for almost an hour!

Yard power wait at engine track

End door box cars were always uncommon. By 1979, they were even more so. Here a Conrail X41F-class example visits DeWitt yard. Built in 1946 as one of 200 PRR X41A-class double door, end door cars... (more)

Depot. A Roger Puta Photograph

SP GP30 5012 at El Paso, Texas September 11, 1979. Photo from my collection, no photographer information on slide.

Still painted in Northern Pacific colors almost 20 years after the BN merger, caboose 10050 brings up the rear of this Houston bound loaded coal train.

In the workshop

An ex Southern Geep sits idling on the main as the crew is on lunch break.

The crew of the Caldwell County Railroad is bringing their customer, Shurtape Technologies, a single tanker car. They will drop this car off and pick up 1 that is waiting for them just out of vi... (more)

The D&H 7303 is off to work on the Plattsburgh local on a perfect December day.

Just recently the Schellville dead line lost a former Northcoast Railway, ex-SP GP9. Now three former SP SD9Es await the future with two former BLE F units on a sunny day before Christmas 2016.

Looks like some restoration has started on this old Alco as evidenced by the gray primer on the frame? The unit is former Boston & Maine 864.

US Gypsum's morning mine run has just completed unloading and shoves the cars back to their storage siding while the crew will switch out a water car. A narrow gauge MLW unit powers the train.

Running as CSX Z15809, NS train 912-08 and I both left Atlanta the day before and happened to cross paths in Cincinnati. 912's ultimate destination is Hammond, IN; while I was bound for SummerRai... (more)