The weather looked promising upon departure from Anchorage but by the time I reached the tracks along Turnagain Arm bad weather had set in. I decided to wait it out and managed this shot of a nort... (more)

An Ex Q GP30 leads a NP F and a BN unit eastbound near Wishram in this photo from my collection. The name of the photographer is quite faded but appears to be Tom Brown.

The last of it's kind One of the two-remaining GE-ALCo shovelnose's hauls the last Boxcab locomotive from the early days of electrified railways in Chile. Made by Baldwin Westinghouse in 1922-1... (more)

MILW 195 leads train 202 around the curve as it approaches the west end of the Columbia River bridge and Beverly, WA. The next crew change is Othello, is 38 miles further east. Othello was the wes... (more)

Led by rebuilt SF30-C 9546 in Kodachrome paint, Santa Fe's Train 408 sails off Raton Pass into Raton, N.M. on Dec. 2, 1989. For help up to the summit (highest point on the ATSF at 7,588-ft.) addi... (more)

Amtrak 4, the Southwest Chief, having just topped over the summit at Glorieta, proceeds downgrade on a clear signal at the east siding-switch Glorieta.

CN only painted one locomotive to promote the 1986 Worlds Fair in Vancouver. Here it is pulling the westbound "Okanagan Express" passenger special across the Thompson River at Lytton, British Co... (more)

A truly unique machine, the Haysi 1. A former Clinchfield B-unit that was modified for radio control and was fitted with a control stand inside the unit, and taking it a step further on the unique... (more)

Northbound 97, known as the Florida Perishable, sits by the sanding tower in the yard at Erwin, TN. This train earned this name due to it hauling reefer cars from the ACL in Spartanburg, and later... (more)

A big coal train begins its charge southbound out of Erwin with veteran F7 800 on the point. The train is about to enter one of the most beautiful parts of the whole railroad, the Nolichucky River... (more)

A local picking up some ballast cars on the former GN line west of Spokane, WA. Later this year this line will be abandoned for a new line out of Spokane that by passed the downtown area to make ... (more)

Enjoying the benefits of a line relocation and improvement project carried out by Central of Georgia in the 1920s, a wb local heads a rock cut just after crossing over a huge fill.

UP's SP transfer job waits in the D yard to depart SP's Taylor yard back to UP's East Yard near downtown Los Angeles

Near sunset in the Coast Range, four Geeps roar up the 1.0 percent grade of Franklin Canyon with a westbound intermodal train out of south Texas.