Way back when, GPs were much more common than GEs or SDs, at least in my neck of the woods. That made this set of SDs a treat on a nice spring afternoon. In just a few seconds the operator will ... (more)

A Wisconsin Central extra west, led by EMD SD45 No. 6589 still painted in Burlington Northern Cascade green colors, is pounding through the grade crossing at Weyer Road north of Duplainville, Wisc... (more)

Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, received over two feet of snow over the previous three days before a frigid Arctic high settled in over the region. The next day on January 27, 1996, Wisconsin Central trai... (more)

Southern Pacific EMD SD45 No. 9109 leads an eastbound double stack train past the station at Franklin Park, Illinois, on December 5, 1987. Franklin Park is northwest of downtown Chicago on Soo Lin... (more)

Two Southern SD45s and a Chessie GP40-2 bring a train from Atlanta through the bare field that once was site of tracks for Terminal Station.

The area around Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, received over two feet of snow over the previous three days before a frigid Arctic high settled in over the region. The next day, on January 27, 1996, Wisco... (more)

Happened on this facility during a weekend jaunt up from Blacksburg. Did not make notes as to its location, but it was in the general vicinity of Elmore, as I recall. Maybe some N&W pros can hel... (more)

GN 400 "Hustle Muscle" - owned by the GNRHS - and NP 3617 pose side-by-side at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth. Hustle Muscle is serviceable and 3617 is nearing operational s... (more)

Soaring over a fork of the Yellowstone River, we see a trifecta of blue; sky, locomotives and river. This area will soon swell to triple its depth as snow melt starts running, drowning everything ... (more)

WC 6630 leads a northbound freight through Rugby Jct. en route to North Fond Du Lac and Shops Yard. Rugby Jct. was an interchange point with Wisconsin & Southern. This location is now part of CN's... (more)

With the sun dropping fast, it lights up the normally yellow fields on the foothills of the mountains. An SD45 led train charges into the coming darkness as they begin their assault on Bozeman Pas... (more)

Late on the afternoon of June 29, 2016, Montana Rail Link’s Helena local, led by EMD SD45 No. 382, rolls through Lombard Canyon west of Lombard, Montana, with seven cars for Helena yard.

A westbound Southern Pacific freight train treads the long, elevated viaduct approach for MacArthur Bridge over the Mississippi River at East St. Louis, Illinois, in December 1984. Powering the tr... (more)

On the morning of April 24, 1988, an eastbound Santa Fe freight crosses the wide Mississippi River from Fort Madison, Iowa, into Illinois on an impressive multi-span deck and truss bridge built in... (more)