During May 2003 no one foresaw that this scene would be dropped into the history books come the summer of 2018. It was common sense to know the SD50s would become a rare sight but in May of 2003 i... (more)

The RDCs and the smokestack in the background indicate that Erie Lackawanna U33C 3315 is an out-of-town visitor as it lays over beneath the sand towers at the Boston & Maine's Boston Engine Termin... (more)

At Mystic Junction in Somerville, MA, a Boston & Maine freight gets underway out of the railroad's Boston freight terminal behind a GP18/GP9 duo wearing their original "bluebird" paint s... (more)

Erie Lackawana SW-9 450(DL & W 555) works Croxton Yard

Three SD45s and an SD40 have ample power to keep CNW train 483 on its schedule. Just out of Altoona, the train is rolling west through Eau Claire along the Uniroyal tire plant just east of the for... (more)

A pair of CSX GP15T's lead local Y126 aka the salt train west through Blue Island

With its station work completed, VIA's eastbound Canadian departs Calgary, Alberta, behind a trio of Canadian Pacific diesels, two GP9s and an RS-10. It was not uncommon at the time to find CPR po... (more)

A rare catch as foreign power is used on the Valdosta Railway since their own power was broken down. Nice to see railroads come together to help one another out.

When New Haven U25B 2519 posed at the Maybrook, NY, engine terminal in June 1969, Penn Central was already beginning to shift traffic away from this once-important connection between the NH and th... (more)

The power for the Maine Central's Rockland Branch train lays over at Rockland, ME, yard on a summer afternoon. MEC 332 is an SW7 and mate 334 is an SW9. Later in the day they will power train NJ-2... (more)

Spokane, Portland & Seattle GP9 151 and F7A 802 on roundtable.

A Delaware & Hudson Potomac Yard train prepares to head west from Allentown yard on the East Penn line. Within a little over a year, many elements of this scene will disappear as part of Conrailâ€... (more)

Detroit & Mackinac Alco RS-3's 974 and 975 with freight train leaving Cheboygan, Michigan's D&M yard on June 27, 1978.

Ex-CN “Cobras” on a northbound freight at SKOLs hub.

The setting sun reflects off the string of Boston & Maine Geeps -- three GP9s and a GP7 -- that lead train EDSA (East Deerfield-Salem, MA) as its awaits a new crew in the B&M yard in East Cambridg... (more)