In UP territory this set of power was for an unknown train. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

Southern Pacific 4-8-8-2 number 4190 heads east with SP 3rd 824, a 76 car freight, at Los Angeles California in 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

A pair of Metro-North RDCs idle at Suffern station between runs. It seems the second unit needed some attention as a mechanic can be seen crouching near one of the trucks. At the time RDCs were ... (more)

Conrail SECS hits the curve south of Ridgefield Park station behind a trio of six-axle GEs. So much has changed in the thirty years since this photo was taken. Aside from the obvious, the lack o... (more)

Conrail SEAL (Selkirk, NY - Allentown, PA) approaches Blanch Ave in Norwood, NJ on the River Line. A remnant of the old New York Central code line remained at right among the encroaching trees.

EL RENO OK April 13 1980 — The Rock Island has shut down and this string of Rock Island cabooses await their fate. My photo.

EL RENO OK April 13 1980 — Rock Island Scale Test Car 85381 awaits its fate after shut down of the Rock Island. I wish I could have hooked up to it and taken it home. My photo.

ENID OK Aug 4 1978 — Rock Island GP38-2 4321 (Texas), U28B 263, GP38-2 4348 (Tom Foster) and GP35 330 haul a mixed freight past a freshly plowed field south of Enid. EMD built the unit in Septem... (more)

Listed as originally SP 1603 but looking very unlike it I wonder if this unit got a new hood somewhere. Photo by Jim Satterwhite.

A hot Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway piggyback train, BNSF 9-896-24, passes through the station of May as it heads east out of Los Angeles behind ATSF SD40-2 5084, which has not yet been ren... (more)

Switching cars in Guadalupe, on California's Central Coast, is Southern Pacific SD7R 1500. Built by EMD in January 1953 as SP SD7 5292, this engine was renumbered to SP 2713 in the railroad's mas... (more)

General Motors Electro-Motive Division built just seven SD45X diesels in 1970 – four demonstrators and three for Southern Pacific Railroad. EMDX 4201-4203 were built with SP's typical array of ... (more)

From time to time, some railroads get rid of surplus power, and other railroads pick up other roads' locomotives. In the 1980s, Illinois Central Gulf had excess GP38ACs and the Missouri-Kansas-Te... (more)

The Route 30 overpass west of Maxwell, NE provides a viewing point for the passage of symbol MFWNP-19 on the home stretch into North Platte.

A southbound Illinois Central freight train, with coal hoppers behind the locomotives, passes a picturesque barn between Ashkum and Danforth, Illinois, on May 6, 1990. The modern day IC locomotive... (more)