Ex-South African Railways Class 16DA 848, nee-Wankie Colliery #5, is a popular display in Dete, even among the locals. Here some kids climb in and around the cab on their way home from school.
This scene is long gone, with a massive sky scraper built over this portion of the exit from the north platforms of Chicago Union Station. But 17 years ago, if one showed up in the longer days of ... (more)
UP SD40-2 holds down some cars for a local to be integrated into the UP system at the east end of formerly SP Settegast Yard.
With towering gate rocks surrounding in the background, a pair of UP AC4400CWs holds up an empty hopper train.
A hot eastbound train blows by a pausing mixed/steel coil train let by an ex-Conrail GP40, just before Porter Junction.
VIA 6451 heads west out of Toronto Union Station into the late day sun.
Bending off the UP (Mopac) line between San Antonio and Hearne, south on (I believe) Southern Pacific (originally Hearne and Brazos Valley Railroad). This junction was established in 1892. Now ove... (more)
"Don't rip out of here like a bat outta hell." Presumably this is to remind the pilots of Metra trains not to get too hot because of the coming interlockings with CN and BRC.
Cresting the pass, one of BN's late scheme SD60Ms leads a hot intermodal east.
A manifest and a local are tied down in the small yard in Flatonia, while in the distance, a westbound rolls toward San Antonio, with DPUs bringing up the markers.
If the quality of cameras existed long ago, this could be from the 1950s ... but it's 60+ years later, before the beginning of the day's tours.
On the top of the mighty Pikes Peak, at 14,000+ feet above sea level, looking down upon the Colorado Plateau.
Arriving from the mountain.
Amtrak 791 sits buried in a flocking of snow in its special place behind the Amtrak Locomotive Facility in Chicago.
One of UP's GP40Xs hangs out in old Mopac (C&EI) territory south of Chicago.
