One third of the Union Pacific’s roster of Alco Century 855’s, number 61, is on the move westbound, having topped off its 4,000-gallon fuel tank at North Platte. On October 2, 1966, the 5,500-... (more)

Soo Line F7A 2225A along with a GP9 and SD40 are parked at the small Irvine Yard engine facility while their train gets switched. This small facility did include a turn table, wood roundhouse, and... (more)

Rock Island 4161 is an F9AM rebuilt from Union Pacific F3A no. 1440A for UP. The unit was built in March 1948 and rebuilt in January 1959. It was one of several Fs acquired by financially strapped... (more)

CR 6707 "We Support Our Troops" leads symbol ALPI3 (Allentown-Conway) as it departs Huntingdon after being tied down for most of a day. There had been a derailment in Altoona but traffic... (more)

A Rock Island SW1200RS (flexicoil trucks) handles switching chores at Inver Grove, MN while a caboose from a Soo Line transfer job waits to depart back to Shoreham Yard in northeast Minneapolis (C... (more)

IC 1029A and B, a TR2 cow and calf set handle switching chores at Illinois Central Gulf's Markham Yard at Homewood, IL. The catenary is for Highliner commuter train service to/from Chicago.

GN 573 was the first SD9 purchased by Great Northern Railway, following acquisition of 23 SD7s, mostly for service in iron ore country. This is a Phase 1 SD9, looking essentially the same as an SD... (more)

Former Erie-Lackawanna GP7 5995 cools off in Cleveland as it undergoes some winter servicing at Conrail's Collinwood diesel facility on Cleveland's east side. This was once part of New York Centra... (more)

Just another nice hot and hazy summer day down at the train yard with sons Mike and Jeff, and their good friend Chad. A manifest freight hustles east on the former NKP main while a Speno train and... (more)

For Labor Day weekend, 1978, a college friend and I planned a three day trip to Buffalo, with the primary objective of seeing some of the remaining ex-Penn Central RSD5’s before they were retire... (more)

In May, 1971, Union Pacific is using its new U50C’s in high-speed service out of East Los Angeles, where the 5003 is being serviced at the open-air engine facility. UP gambled big on the 5,000-h... (more)

A DWP transfer run heads southwest on BN trackage under the overpass that leads to the DMIR ore docks on Duluth's west end. The pair of GP38-2s are fairly recent arrivals to the property having st... (more)

A nice array of Missabe SDs on not such a nice day. On this cold, rainy (sometimes snowy), day in October 1982, we have a view of an SD18, one of the first chop nose SD9s, normal SD9s, and a coupl... (more)

The SOO chose MN&S caboose #100 to wear a short lived white paint scheme as a display car to celebrate the newly created SOO/Milwaukee system. It is shown here resting in shops yard in North Fond ... (more)

The Aberdeen & Rockfish train from Aberdeen meanders through the North Carolina sandhills near Skibo. GP38 400 still plies these same rails well over three decades later.