A pair of GP15s lead a Yard Center to Chicago Heights job past Jay Tower, named because of the EJ&E crossing. As of 2016, the motors are still in service however the tower has been razed.

Utah Railway Alco RSD-15 No. 403 rests at Provo Yard after returning from Martin with a coal train on May 28, 1977. The 403 was built the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe 847 in June of 1960.

The 1st Watson heads into Torrance with a trio of ex-ATSF painted GP60 variants. In tow is a cut of tank cars from the Chevron refinery in El Segundo which are bound for Watson Yard. With only a h... (more)

The sun breaks through the thick clouds hovering over northeast Georgia, making a neon scene out of the Hartwell Railroad as it negotiates the former Southern line toward Bowersville while dense s... (more)

Louisville & Nashville SD40-2 3581 mingles with some GE’s in outside of the shops in Corbin, Kentucky. The unit continues in service today as CSX SD40-3 4075.

CNW 421 and an E8 are positioning commuter trains at the throat to CNW's Madison Street station for the afternoon rush hour. Dozens of trains will move in and out of this junction in the next coup... (more)

The unfortunate aftermath of the MWCNP train with UP 7088's blown turbo and trailing unit 6609 hidden beneath a blanket of crankcase oil. The first 15 cars of the manifest freight were also bad or... (more)

El Centro Hauler -A mixed merchandise train (aka the El Centro Hauler) with interchange cars brought up and out of Mexico by way of the Mexicali - Calexico Port of Entry, pulls off the El C... (more)

A quintet of EMD 567 V-16 diesel engines all fit nicely on a 50 ft. CNW flat car, pictured at the Oelwein, Iowa diesel shops, once the heart of the Chicago Great Western Railroad. During this peri... (more)

ELS 202 rests at the ELS Escanaba engine house in September of 1988. I know 202 was in use but I'm not sure about the others.

HIAWATHA UT Aug 22 1981 -- Utah Railway RSD15s 402, 401 and 403 smoke it up as they begin to pull on a cut of cars at the Hiawatha loadout. Unit 403’s smoke show puts much of the area in shadow.... (more)

C&TS 44-tonner (weight 47 tons apparently) #19 was sent over to C&TS from Oahi Railway & Land Co. in 1972.

Sitting just off Virginia Ave. rests this CSXT Operation Lifesaver Caboose. It has been here for quite some time and I am unsure who the actual owner is. The track is served by a Norfolk Souther... (more)

CR 6764 is former Reading Lines no. 5311, an Alco C630 locomotive in the deadline at Collinwood Yard, Cleveland, Ohio, in January 1981. Former Southern Ry. president Stanley Crane is now at the he... (more)

One of my personal favorite locomotives on the Hartwell Railroad roster is this well worn and rusted former CONRAIL GP38. Here it is seen pulling a small cut of cars out of a storage track in Toc... (more)