As sharp looking a unit as has ridden the rails in many years, Conrail's magnificent SD80MACs were powerful beauties. The 4110 and 4114 lead a 159 car eastbound manifest through Huntingdon, PA on ... (more)

C&NW 8683, 8640 and 8714 lead an Oakland-bound double-stack outfit departing Fremont, NE.

ATSF 5003, an SD40u, leads an eastbound through Camden, MO with the old magnetic flagman swinging and clanging away.

Slam, bang! A four-pack of warbonnets are in full flight as yet another intermodal hotshot sails through rural Camden, MO on a June morn. The old wig-wag crossing signal here would have been clang... (more)

SP SD40M-2 8701, a rebuilt CNW SD45, leads a westbound ascending the grade from the Colorado River valley at Cisco, UT. The incredible scenery where the railroad follows the river and redrock clif... (more)

BN 7829 with a cabless SD40-2 (rebuilt after a wreck) and an NS B36-7 are in the hole at lonely Floy, UT waiting for a meet with an eastbound on this now forlorn stretch of ex-D&RGW railroad that ... (more)

Like a red-tipped arrow, Santa Fe GP60M 111 leads a westbound downgrade toward Seligman, as seen from the old Route 66 overpass. Just around the curve in the distance, the original mainline via Pi... (more)

UP 6840 and 6845 have one of the fuel tenders that were temporarily in vogue as they get underway after a crew change in Fremont, NE this spring day.

During an era when a seemingly (and sometimes literally) endless parade of coal trains prevailed across the Nebraska plains, UP 9258 with an SD90/43 MAC and an SP AC4400 lead an empty coal set out... (more)

The standard helper set, a pair of SD40-2s, assist the road power on symbol LMPI climbing the grade above Sugar Run valley between MG and Bennington. Another set of SD40-2s were on the rear end. S... (more)

The distinctive MG Block Station was still an open office at this time as No.3 track was closed west of this point account work on the tunnels at Gallitzin. It's SD60I 5630's birthday month as it ... (more)

UP's first Dash9 leads another in C&NW paint and an SD60M back when DC power ruled the rails. The string of empties headed for the Black Thunder Mine in the Powder River basin is about to hit the ... (more)

CR 6165 (with an SD60M behind) leads 107 empty Cambria & Indiana hoppers around Horseshoe Curve on an early autumn morning.

NS 9208 leads a Conrail SD60M on an eastbound manifest working upgrade through Lilly, PA on the final few miles before the summit at Gallitzin. Fuji Velvia.

NS 9338 leads an eastbound through the crossovers at CP Enon as the train gets around a tied up manifest behind an SD80MAC. NS control of this line was only a few days old on this spring morning. ... (more)