"Natives in the Pines"
New York & Atlantic train RS-70 is seen shoving down the Calverton Industrial track to service Eastern Fence, located in Calverton Executive Airpark. B... (more)

UP GP38-2 leads an SD40-2 and 2 SP SD45s on the northbound freight leaving Tacoma near Reservation Junction and climbing a short grade to the Puyallup River crossing on its way to Seattle. BN's do... (more)

Two Twin Cities & Western GP38-2s rest beside the Richard W. Sears Memorial Park in North Redwood, MN. The small depot is a replica of the Minneapolis & St Louis Railway structure that once stood ... (more)

NS 5640 leads the MI-61 northbound through Clayton NJ

CN GP40-2W no. 9523 is teamed up with GP38-2 no. 4795 on duty as the Pointe-Saint-Charles switcher, picking up empty grain cars at Ardent Mills on Montreal's Lachine Canal bank.

Here is a good shot of the Union Pacific operations building in the North Yard in Denver, Colorado.

The rare locotrol-equipped 4-axle unit leads light power. Photo by Dave Petke. From my collection.

The turn from Raleigh is doing some switching before escaping northward once again. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

Photo by Dave Petke. From my collection.

After the second warmest February on record, Spring came early in Georgia with Bartlett Pear & Red Bud out in full force.

Traction orange is seen in abundance on the South Shore Line, near Shops, at Michigan City Indiana. Jeff Stupar photo.

A quintet of UP GP38-2s lead by UP 2049 idle the night away at the Argo Yard engine facility in Seattle in the company of a couple NW2s and a few cabooses. In the mid 1970s the slogan "Depend... (more)

A rainy summer day in Seattle did not dampen spirits of UP employees as the railroad operated Family Days round trip train rides between Argo Yard in Seattle and Black River Jct. This stretch of t... (more)

A trio of EMD locomotives sit on the servicing tracks in Willmar as yet more snow falls on an early March day. A GE can be seen getting a spin on the turntable in the distance on the left.