This was called a yard cleaner.... in BN's former Rice Yard, Denver. Cough, cough, wheeze; the operator even stands outside. The area is now Elitchs amusement park.

The boy at right probably still remembers how the ATSF unloads a ballast tamper from a flat car if no crane is available. With the work train int he background dumping ballast, the tamper has its... (more)

The Frisco ready track at Kansas City next to the turntable pit had a variety of goodies -- 5204 Alco FA, a GE U25B and an E8 behind them.

An eastbound BN freight from Vancouver, Wash, has turned south across Celilo lift bridge and Columbia River to enter Oregon, headed down the Deschutes Canyon and Bend, Ore. A mixture of power -- ... (more)

In the late 1980s the Texas Limited was privately operated between Houston and Galveston, primarily on the old Galveston, Houston and Henderson. With a leased ATSF GP9 it was returning northward ... (more)

In an attempt to open its line from winter snows, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic operated a triple-header rotary snow plow train on May 3, 1997. Three mikados are shoving Rotary OY as they near the deep... (more)

It was business as usual on Denver & Rio Grande Western's narrow gauge on June 1, 1966, as Class K-37 498 and mid-train helper 488 lift westbound tonnage of asphalt, drilling mud and pipe through... (more)

Rock Island ran whatever it had as evident in May 1965 when EMD F2 No. 40 led an Alco FA-1, an EMD BL-2, an F-7 and the newest of the bunch, No. 1348, a GP-18, off the Kansas River bridge at Topek... (more)

The U.P. crew from Los Angeles climbs off the SD24 at Yermo and the relief crew will forward the train across the Mojave Desert, up and over Cima Hill to Las Vegas, Nev. Yermo is a run through l... (more)

On Pennsy's 4-track mainline a local with a Fairbanks-Morse H-16-44 is westbound from Pittsburgh along the Ohio River at Avalon, Pa. April, 1961.

A westbound U.P. freight with Alco RS-27 678 in the lead is northwest of Topeka, Ks., headed for Marysville and on to North Platte, Nebr. on July 9, 1967. A DD35B and two GE units are in the cons... (more)

Calling at Texarkana, Texas is KCS Train 15 the Flying Crow, with an E8 and F7B headed next to Shreveport, La. and then back into east Texas at Beaumont and Port Arthur. A MoPac geep is behind a p... (more)

Santa Fe local Trn. 184, with FM 539, on the Leavenworth Branch has a heavyweight coach for excursionists. The branch has been abandoned for decades.

The class unit herself 6900 with different font numbers, the first of 45 Centennials, has left Cheyenne and climbs eastward up Archer Hill, a favorite photo location on the elevated curve.

Four Southern Ry. high-nose GP30's (2530 in the lead) leave Potomac Yard, Virginia, on a dash to Atlanta on Feb. 22, 1964 as a RF&P Alco switcher 63 was handling yard duties.