A trio of veteran Canadian Pacific SD40-2's bring a 60 car Herzog ballast train through downtown Davenport. This view shows how the CP has elevated the mainline at least 2 feet over the Gaines Str... (more)

Based on looking at a CNW diesel roster, this odd ball unit started out as a 6 axle Baldwin road switcher about 1951. It was re-engined be EMD in the late 50s, receiving what appears to be a GP18 ... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train blurs past a graveyard of semaphore signal masts lined up at Superior, Montana, after their removal from usefulness on October 6, 2005. One of o... (more)

Adding a splash of color to this snow covered scene, former BN SD60M 9222, now CBFX 6022, leads Flat Rock-Bellevue freight No. 184 across Norfolk Southern's Maumee River swing bridge in Toledo, Oh... (more)

A recently washed 2104 looks sharp in front of the laker Hon. James L Oberstar of the Interlake Steamship fleet. The Oberstar was repainted over the winter and looks equally nice. The vessel was l... (more)

Rock Island locomotives await assignment.

BNSF 4829 works west at Pisgah dodging shadows from the fast moving clouds.

In the early 1970's the Quebec North Shore and Labrador began retiring some of the GP-9's as SD40's and SD40-2's came onto the roster. Four GP9's are stored at the Coal Chute in CPR's St. Luc Yar... (more)

13 month old BN was still pretty colorful as shown here with an eastbound "hotshot" leaving St. Paul at Dayton's Bluff on trackage shared with Milwaukee Road, Rock Island and Chicago & N... (more)

Union Pacific GP20 roster numbers (470-499).

Notre Dame de Paris

Further to the picture (RP #694393) that Brian Stephenson recently posted to express his sadness after the disastrous fire that destroyed parts of the Notre-D... (more)

In the early 1970's the Quebec North Shore and Labrador began retiring some of the GP-9's as SD40's and SD40-2's came onto the roster. QNSL 117 is one of four GP9's stored in CPR's St. Luc Yard. ... (more)

Republic Steel EMD switchers work their way around the steel mill in Cleveland, Ohio in September 1981. A molten metal car is in the foreground.

"Oyster Box at Mill Neck" Long Island Rail Road train 562 heads east past the old Mill Neck Station on the Oyster Bay Branch. The station was opened by the LIRR as "Bayville... (more)

BNSF 8026 makes the big turn left headed for Phoenix out of Ash Fork with a Phoenix bound z train in tow. The original A&P/ATSF transcon ROW is at the bottom of the frame..used until the Crookton ... (more)