Soo Line train No. 11 leaves Duplainville, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of July 26, 1987. Power is a matching set of Soo GP30s; Nos. 716 and 703.

Soon after the UP-SP merger, many former D&RGW SD40T-2s returned to home rails. Here a matched quad of EMD 'tunnel motors' lead a 44 car RODVM (Roper, UT - Denver, CO) through Price Canyon at the ... (more)

Equipped with a matched trio of SD40T-2s, a westbound Rio Grande freight climbs the 1% grade between Kyune and Colton. If you look closely, the Rio Grande Zephyr train #17 can be seen overtaking t... (more)

A Soo Line northbound freight begins its descent of Byron Hill south of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on a beautiful August 2, 1987. Bracketing two GP9s are a pair of GP30s.

Spring is a couple days off, but the snow is wet and sticking to the trees like it is already spring. Four Southern Pacific AC4400CWs haul an empty coal train through the snow-covered trees at Cre... (more)

A westbound GP30 trio in the "sunburst" scheme makes setouts and pickups in Wilsmere Yard. Note the cut of stock cars behind the power- remember stock cars? Kodachrome original, Argus C-3.

A westbound Southern Pacific taconite train bound for Geneva, Utah, carefully grinds down the steep 3 percent grade on the west slope of Tennessee Pass. The train is just leaving Pando, Colorado, ... (more)

This is a shot I obtained many years from the late Shelby Lowe. I believe the original photographer was Dick Sharpless. This is the Southern Railway I recall as a youngster---green F-units on frei... (more)

Westbound Erie-Lackawanna freight train powered by E8A no. 824 and three mates at Akron, Indiana, on June 28, 1975. During its final years, the E-L relegated many of its passenger-geared E-units t... (more)

After screaming at some yuppies to get off the tracks and having them stare stupidly at us, the ICE trio thunders through Dakota doing all of the new 60 mph speed limit.

A clean pair of GP30's is making up his train at North Fond du Lac yard.

987 & 988 arrived in Grands Rapids on their maiden run back on Christmas Eve. After returning east for one job, they then came back to West Michigan where they've been exclusively on pusher duty ... (more)

3 FM H16-66 units are setting off cars at the yard in the late afternoon. This was what we called the "afternoon freight". It is southbound. Taken on Kodachrome II film.

In my favorite shot of the day, the Fudge Pop twins start the descent on the main part of the grade on Lemon Drop Hill, with their dynamics howling and doing a fine job of holding the 123 cars bac... (more)

With days until the start up of Conrail this group of E8's is trying to get a roll on 117 cars west from Marion toward the connection in Chicago. Most crews talked to on the west end preferred the... (more)