Before the influx of SD40s on the Galt Sub, this was typical of the lash-ups one could encounter - first generation, four-axle power. To quote Jackie Gleason at the time, how sweet it is!

Three GP7s accelerate past TH&B's Hunter Street Station with a unit train of sulfuric acid bound for a fertilizer plant in Port Maitland, Ontario. Hauled from Northern Ontario to Toronto by Canad... (more)

A colorful mix of EMDs lead a Roseville to Roper Forwarder into Roper Yard on July 24, 1996. The four unit set has 13 loads of piggyback trailers on the draw bar.

En route to Elkhart IN with a Santa Fe unit leading the way, at the west end of IHB's Gibson Yard in 1978.

"Schmoozing the New Customer"

Before the NS 66/67Z oil trains started running to NJ the new oil customer had to decide which class one railroad (CSX/NS) would be responsible for... (more)

Seaboard Air Line passenger, mail, and express train No. 3 has just departed Raleigh, NC passenger station in August, 1966.

NYC’s Train 59, “Chicagoan” makes its last station stop at South Bend, Indiana at 3:00 p.m. before reaching Chicago on Nov. 19, 1966. E-8 4066 and two sister E-7’s 4000 and 4004 are in ... (more)

Somber gray clouds hang over the Wasatch Range on the morning of January 30, 2003, as Rio Grande SD40T-2 No. 5371 leads the Union Pacific “dirt train” past mile 607.4 east of Wash, Utah. Engin... (more)

Departing Butler, Wisconsin, in March 1984, is a southbound (eastbound) Chicago & North Western freight led by a matching pair of EMD SD45s. Those homemade numberboards on No. 916 look a bit weird... (more)

A BN helper set idles at Skykomish on a rare sunny February day. This was a typical consist in 1975 with BN GP9 1794 (x-GN 721), F9B 803 (x-NP 7000C), and BN 1799 (x-GN 726). This power will soon ... (more)

MILW AS616s 561, 562, and 560 built in April 1951. 562 was built w/o a cab.

Alabama & Florida Railroad GP9 #6076, its heritage obvious, sits outside the former Louisville & Nashville depot. #6076 was built June 1956 as Chesapeake & Ohio #6076

A CNW SD45 from its last order and an SD40 bend around the frozen shore of Dells Pond, part of the Chippewa River on a frigid February day in 1972. The train has just left Altoona, passed by the E... (more)

An LTV ore train unloads its cargo into a ship at the ore dock in Taconite Harbor, MN.