It was barely a week after NS assumed operations on Conrail lines and their photogenic black was already infiltrating the familiar Conrail blue power consists. A westbound trailvan drops downgrade... (more)

Pulling the long grade up the Arizona Divide, ATSF 530 leads an eastbound through Crookton, AZ. Ektachrome.

The bright light of the rising sun, the vast landscape and mountains some fifty miles distant all contribute to the scene as BNSF 1001 glides eastbound into Winslow, AZ. Fuji Astia.

A couple Dash 9s in their heyday - the 4740 and 4847 - lead a westbound manifest through Oreapolis, NE on an early spring adternoon. The searchlights protect the crossing with UP's Falls City Sub ... (more)

UP 6877 is stopped for a crew change in Fremont, NE, thence off to the Powder River for more coal.

UP 7614 in the company of another C45 and an SD70M are preparing to depart Fremont, NE after a crew change. The North Platte-bound manifest is one among a fleet of westbounds queued to change crew... (more)

A winged parade as seven units lead a North Platte-bound manifest out of Fremont, NE on a spring evening.

A four pack of GE units work the long westward grade at the Cosnino Road crossing east of Flagstaff. In the days before the classic signal systems were destroyed, signal bridges such as this were ... (more)

BN 9219 with another 60M and two SD40-2s roars past the NP-era signals protecting the west end of Livingston, MT as clouds build in a late August sky. The coal train is beginning the climb to Boze... (more)

Sailing through Huntingdon, PA on a June afternoon, symbol ALPI9F retains its Conrail designation (Allentown-Conway) for now. A renumbered B23-7 and a B36-7 also retain their Conrail colors with a... (more)

The Erie heritage signal beckons toward an eastbound as CR 8126 coupled with a Santa Fe SD45u brings a westbound into Marion, OH as clouds build on a spring afternoon. The Erie and NYC (former Big... (more)

Cruising down the glide path west of Gallitzin summit, a westbound manifest passes Lilly, PA on an October morning. It's all downhill for some 45 miles now, although a long grade for eastbounds. ... (more)

UPs attractive SP heritage unit leads a manifest threading the myriad curves of the railroad's ascent of Tehachapi Pass at Bealville, CA. The SP heritage searchlight signal is lamentably long gone... (more)

NS 4188, an AC44C6M rebuild, leads an aromatic trash train downgrade beneath the overpass at Cassandra, PA on an autumn morning. Out of view and third out in the power consist is the C of G herita... (more)

On formerly home rails, C&NW 8711 is paired with a repainted C&NW SD40-2 as they lead auto racks into the December sundown. This was C&NWs freight line between Missouri Valley, IA and Fremont, NE ... (more)