BN 9852, a rare SDP40, still wearing GN Big Sky Blue, pokes its nose out of the roundhouse at Harrison St., Minneapolis, MN, in April 1971. This, one of the newest passenger locos on GN/BN, is lik... (more)

The Board of Directors tours the Shasta Route in summer 1987. This train ran through to Portland, and then returned to California via the Siskiyou Line.

Because the tiny Bostic yard is already packed, a long Clinchfield-bound manifest freight has pulled down the line to Forest City to clear the main for a sb/eb coal train off the CRR. Once the un... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

Let it snow! Just after being re-assigned to CNW's Cleveland sales office, I ventured over to see the famous former NYC Collinwood facilities. I was rewarded with an eclectic group of pre-Conrail ... (more)

Out of the Hole

A former Erie-Lackawanna SDP45 leads a dimensional special out of the “Hole” at East Penn Junction. The recently rehabilitated connection from the Lehigh Valley... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

An EMD test set consisting of a SDP40F, passenger test car, A-B F-unit set, and SD45 demonstrator are seen traversing the ICG mainline. Tom Golden photo.

A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

Note, those are not Harriman coaches. The letter boards of Harriman cars extended above the doors. The last Harriman cars on the SP were in the 1960s. That's why they called them "Subs."... (more)

GN 332 and a former GN F3B idle at the former GN passenger roundhouse at the east side entry to St. Paul's Union Station in April 1970. This photo was taken a month into the BN merger, but its all... (more)

MRL SDP40 no. 290 rolls east on the point of an Eastern Washington Gateway "Scooter" grain train that originated in Coulee City, WA and will unload at an elevator near Cheney, WA for tra... (more)

A grand old name in Union Pacific passenger lore, the Overland, westbound Train 27, passes under the C&S overpass at the west end of Cheyenne on December 26, 1965. Led by SDP35’s 1407 and 1400, ... (more)

MRL 290, near the end of it's lease by the EWG, finds itself leading the WRIX 8702 and the NIWX 9129 at the head of a scoot/shuttle train. The power has cut off from the train in order to pick up ... (more)