Soo Line 500A rests at Shoreham Yard with a snow plow. 2 F-units were assigned to plow duty at the time, perhaps with this plow.

The inbound 1989 NRHS convention special with the N&W 611 passes a ballast train south of Charlottesville. No. 3988 was built by GE for the Southern Railway in January, 1979.

The Cambria & Indiana Railroad was a Bethlehem Steel-owned coal hauler powered entirely by EMD switchers. Here two SW1200’s bracket a pair of SW9’s pulling empty hoppers near Belsano, Pennsylv... (more)

Penned in at Horse Shoe Curve, Pennsy Pacific no. 1361 observes a Conrail freight descend eastbound around the famous curve. CR caboose 21621 is of New York Central heritage, which just does not f... (more)

CN 5085 and mate wait out a winter storm at Boston Bar, BC. The two non-dynamic brake SD40s will handle an empty grain train east in the morning.

Glistening Chinese Red brightens the day as former CB&Q GP7 256, now BN 1612 soaks up some sun at the BN North La Crosse, WI roundhouse. Decked out with a Mars light and GP7 plaque, Burlington's s... (more)

BN 921, former NP Alco S4 no. 721 pairs up with as S2 to handle heavy switching at Rice's Point Yard, Duluth, MN. The pair is making a move from Bridge Yard onto the Rice's Point leads near downto... (more)

DWP SD40's #5905 and #5911 soak up the last rays of sunshine at Pokegama Yard near the Twin Ports in Sept. of 1987.

ExAmtrak SDP40F repainted and modified front step for Santa Fe and redesignated by Santa Fe as an SDF40-2 leads an eastbound Port of Long Beach to Chicago MAERSK stack train near the siding of Alr... (more)

On a gray Memorial Day weekend in northeastern Minnesota, the St. Paul-Superior, WI Badger accelerates out of Brook Park as a couple of ladies who just detrained, head towards their ride home. The... (more)

Santa Fe’s station in Raton, New Mexico sits quietly, awaiting the next arrival of the Southwest Chief. The barrage carts have disappeared sometime in the past thirty years, but the scene... (more)

Short and Fast

Just two days before Christmas 1978, a hot Santa Fe intermodal train climbs the eastern grade of the Tehachapi Mountain crossing as it approaches Monolith. This train... (more)

We Have All Been Here Before

When many railfans think of the Southern Pacific, they think of dirty, run-down locomotives. But this was generally not the case with the SP - not until... (more)

Best. Paint. Scheme. Ever.

Amtrak San Diegan #78 makes its stop in Santa Ana late in the day on an August 1971 afternoon. Amtrak was just over three months old at this time, ... (more)

A Splash of Color in a Drab Yard

On July 24, 1986, the Interstate Commerce Commission would put the kibosh on the proposed Santa Fe-Southern Pacific merger. At Santa Fe's San Bernar... (more)