On its maiden run out of the paint shop, SD45-2 5703 leads eastbound Super C at Java, Calif. headed for Needles. Four SD45-2s were on the hotshot when fuel oil was obviously cheaper.

The 3 SDP40Fs are now in California, having crossed the Colorado River from Topock, Ariz. The train is essentially ex-Santa Fe Super Chief and El Capitan cars, and it was during this winter of 19... (more)

Three BM&LP GE E60C electrics have westbound coal loads in tow near Cow Springs, Ariz. en route to the power generation station at Page.

A mixture of Rock Island power has an eastbound passing a typical Kansas landmark while on UP trackage at North Topeka, en route Kansas City. F2 No. 43, 1239 and 1347 are GP18s, 1329 is a GP9, a... (more)

N&W Class A 1207 at Columbus, Ohio Aug. 20, 1957 as a hostler moves it to servicing. Cylinder cocks are open to clear out accumulated moisture.

Clinchfield's only boiler-equipped F7 for passenger service (which ended in 1954) No. 200 leads a northbound freight over the South Fork of the Holston River just a couple miles from Kingsport, Te... (more)

Nineteen miles west of Missouri Capitol Jefferson City, MoPac Colorado Eagle eastbound No. 12 with three E7s is about to snag a bag of USMail at McGirk. E7A 24 was originally numbered 7014 and w... (more)

At appropriately named Joshua siding two UP Century DD40Xs almost have a westbound over Cima summit in California Mojave Desert between Las Vegas and Barstow.

The brakeman on NWP's northbound Train 4 has assisted with unloading freight (including a wringer washing machine) from the rear compartment of SP Budd RDC car and is about to swing aboard to cont... (more)

With one of Cotton Belt's large cabooses once upon a time to accommodate passengers, a branch line local with a Baldwin switcher and a full crew is returning to the mainline -- Malden.

The only reason I fished this one out is how many viewers have ever seen the top of a UP "Big Blow" Turbine where all that noise came from. (They were eventually outlawed from running in Sou. Ca... (more)

One of the most famous trains in the USA during its heyday, New York Central Train 26, The Twentieth Century Limited, behind two E8As and an E7B prepares to depart LaSalle Street Station Chicago o... (more)

VIA Rail's Train 3, westbound "Super Continental" has ex-CN FP9A 6504 on the point after the train departed Jasper, Alberta and is headed for the Alberta-British Columbia border at Yellowhead Pas... (more)

Helping a neighbor, Union Pacific Rotary snow plow 900080 is on UPs former Coalmont Branch, now the Wyoming Colorado RR, clearing snow at Albany, Wyo.

Going out to war to help a neighbor, Union Pacific Rotary snow plow 900080 is on UPs former Coalmont Branch from Laramie to Colorado, now operated by the Wyoming Colorado RR. Their leased Mountai... (more)