A former Maine Central E7 with little lettering and visible number leads KCS Southern Belle south out of Kansas City to begin its 870 mile run to New Orleans. Apparently a SP sleeper is deadheadi... (more)

A Paducah rebuilt SD10 and a GP40 and 2 other motors lead an eastbound ten miles east of state capitol Pierre and are turning northward to leave the Missouri River. The crew will tie up at Huron ... (more)

Four EMD units, 3 GP30s and a GP35, all riding on Alco trucks, are northbound toward St. Louis in the short days of the year and the sun sets quickly.

A ubiquitous BNSF coal train from Powder River, Wyo. crosses the Missouri River between Mandan and Bismarck, N.D. on a very frigid Feb. day when the highest temperature reached was minus 16. Not... (more)

No, Great Western doesn't have a new power plant on its line. But what better way to use little-used track than to store cars on it? Track? What track? Two GW Geeps are hauling utility-owned h... (more)

No, this wasn't photoshopped. Apparently a shop laborer had a little time on his hands to modify UP's slogan on the side of Great Western's a-bit-worn GP-9. Note GW's jackrabbit herald in the ea... (more)

Two UP U-50's, a GP-7B and another Geep are in the siding at Aikins, Kansas to meet an eastbound, headed for Kansas City while Nos. 45 and 43 are going to Marysville and on to North Platte, Nebr.,... (more)

Passing a lake at Burlington, Wisconsin, Soo Line wooden caboose 99062 bobbles on the rear of a freight with empty ore jennies and numerous 40-ft. box cars early in the morning on Aug. 13, 1964. ... (more)

Cimarron Valley's daily run to the BNSF interchange at Dodge City is "gettin' out of Dodge" on it's way back to Satanta and S.W. Kansas on ATSF's former branch line to Boise City, Okla. The GP-3... (more)

MILW's SD7 522 has eight empty 40-ft. box cars in tow at Suffolk, Mont. en route to the elevator at the end of the branch at Winifred. The 90-mile round trip at 10 mph will require most of the c... (more)

MILW's local has arrived at the end of the Winifred, Mont. branch and has placed its 8 empty box cars on the north end of the loaded box cars. SD7 522 runs around them to couple into the loads, s... (more)

Was it any crossties or was it the sod that held the gauge on MILW's Winifred branch near Suffolk when the local with eight 40-ft. box cars tenderly negotiated it at 10 mph? Remnants of old "rai... (more)

Eleven miles from Lewistown, Mont., MILW's local to Winifred actually traversed the siding (elevator track) because the "main line" was out of service. Speed limit was 10 mph.

On June 7, 2011, Shosholoza Meyl's purple Premier Classe train nears Wellington, South Africa after leaving Cape Town on its 918-mile overnight run to Johannesburg.

Just days after being unloaded off a ship from Europe at Houston, Southern Pacific's second generation German Krauss-Maffei diesel hydraulic 9005 is paired up with an F-7 at Eugene, Oregon roundho... (more)