Santa Fe's northbound Train 16 "Texas Chief" with a mixture of hi-level and regular cars arrives capitol Oklahoma City, Okla. on a dingy Feb. 19, 1968, behind two GE U30CGs. Only six such units w... (more)
In case of a line-blockage derailment, there was nothing like a ready-made shoofly around it!! Such was the lucky case when the rear cars of a northbound ATSF freight derailed adjacent to a lim... (more)
power at EL's Chicago area facility
A Union Pacific officer's special arrives in Salt Lake City from Nampa, Idaho. Former SP observation cars 'Sunset' and 'Stanford' trail the UP 8725 as it heads into the UTA/Amtrak station to tie u... (more)
Amtrak No. 6, the California Zephyr, skirts the Bookcliffs east of Solitude, Utah, on the morning of March 5, 2012. Union Pacific was in the middle of replacing the signals on this section of the ... (more)
eastbound and westbound EL trains meet at Pullman Junction on the south side of Chicago
E8 shell wasting away at the Steam Shop turntable, presumable used for parts for the working heritage fleet E9s. The cab was in relatively good shape. However, the same cannot be said for the prim... (more)
UP 5498 is the DPU on a Westbound Intermodal Heading into Global 3. Here the Locomotive is seen passing under the UP Signals that protect the famed Rochelle Dimonds, as a Bird gets a Bird's Eye Vi... (more)
With Christmas in the air and an increase in passenger traffic, the first section of the normally-combined North Coast Limited-Empire Builder wears green as it roars through La Grange, Illinois on... (more)
CR 5987 and a derailed boxcar sit in the bright Akron sun.
There is little doubt that the stars of WM's yard at Hagerstown, MD were the two BL2's, No's. 81 and 82, and their slugs. However, the yard assignment that worked in front of the yard office kick... (more)
A Snowflake Special in the early morning light heading out of San Jose in the eastbay area
The Lackawanna heritage unit leads an empty coal train east through Elyria on the Chicago main.
A set of AEM-7AC motors propel a Northeast Regional train down the former PRR corridor line through Metropark at speed after a storm.
Metra 117 leads an afternoon outbound train past a townhome in Westmont.