ONR plow no. 560 catches some late rays of sun as it rolls through Hallebourg.
ONR's wedge no. 560 has the nose down and breaks up ice buildup west of Kapuskasing, ON. It was rumored that this specific plow hadn’t been used in 6 years, and only got used because the snow fi... (more)
A westbound Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad freight, loaded mostly with heavy steel coils, is about to cross the grade crossing entrance to National Steel at Portage, Indiana, on the aft... (more)
IHB GP38-2 3802 leads a manifest East through LaGrange.
Originally a SLSF unit, photographer unknown, from my collection.
OKLAHOMA CITY (May) 1981 — Patched BN GP38-2 2317 awaits its next assignment. EMD built the unit for Frisco in November 1976 as SLSF 462. My photo.
GNRR's Tate-Elizabeth road local blows out sand as it drags 15/8 general freight up one of the many short but steep hills, passing a tie crane that has been part of ongoing line maintenance.
Hot bottlesConrail EMD GP38-2 No. 8155 powers a hot metal “bottle train” approaching the busy junction at Dolton, Illinois, on March 19, 1988. These trains shipped molten metal from... (more)
CN Local making its way back from Illinois after serving local industries.
After working Suncast in Batavia, R-CHI452 returns to Eola with H-1 GP38-2, 2321, in the lead
No dynamic brakes, a dead giveaway that this is a ex-TP&W unit. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.
An eastbound Twin Cities & Western train is dwarfed by the large grain elevator and bins on either side of the tracks in downtown Gibbon, MN.
With its forested 5.6% grade climbing hundreds of vertical feet in a couple of miles towards a 19th century turntable and the largest building in the world, the BNSF Boeing Hill spur between Evere... (more)
A short TXR local heads back into town after switching Kohler.
L-CHI105 wastes no time as they head west over the Des Planes River in Lemont with a H1 GP38-2, H4 GP60 and a Bluebonnet GP60.
