By late 1970 things were pretty quite around the Minneapolis BN station. Only a handful of passenger trains made it to BN from its predecessors. I was wandering around the platform when all of a s... (more)

The sound of a 20-cylinder SD45 once again echo off the Jefferson River Canyon walls east of Whitehall Montana. Montana Rail Link SD45 346 has a loaded ballast train well in hand as the train make... (more)

Montana Rail Link SD45 number 346 leads a loaded ballast train out of the Jefferson River Canyon between Whitehall and Sappington Montana. This 20-cylinder monster is traversing the MRL's 5th subd... (more)

A Union Pacific westbound freight, lead by a pair of former Southern Pacific SD40-2M diesels rebuilt by M-K from SD45s, passes through El Casco, the name for the crossover in Redlands, on Beaumont... (more)

WC 6641 still displays its Santa Fe heritage in 1998 as it leads a northbound freight, with two business cars tucked in behind the power, through Grand Avenue Jct. with the UP and Wisconsin & Sout... (more)

WC 6621 leads a freight with Canadian lumber on the front of the train into North Fond du Lac's Shop Yards. By 1997 WC had develpoed a close relationship with Canadian National which would lead to... (more)

A westbound Santa Fe train is shown descending the grade between Walong and Woodford, CA.

Wisconsin Central train 47 departs Duplainville during a Wisconsin snowstorm on January 25, 1996.

WWhen the power-short Susquehanna bought a group of ex-Burlington Northern 45-Series diesels, they were quickly placed into service in full BN paint, or stenciled for NYSW with BN numbers. Here th... (more)

A pair of Erie Lackawanna SD45s roll an eastbound freight through the yard at Port Jervis, NY, while a switcher works in the background. The oversize auto parts cars behind the power were destined... (more)

As dusk falls on a hot and hazy day, an Erie Lackawanna SD45 fronts three other EMDs on an eastbound freight at Hammond, IN.

WC SD45s 6529 and 6511 grind a stack and intermodal train up Byron Hill at Hwy. F after leaving North Fond du Lac for Chicago. This scene is now double track, part of CN's mainline through Wiscons... (more)

Nearly seven years after receiving the red and yellow colors of the proposed Southern Pacific Santa Fe merger, Southern Pacific SD45R 7564 is showing some wear and tear when found in Dolores Yard ... (more)

WC 6621 leads a southbound freight across the Fox River on the former Fox River Valley (C&NW) mainline through Oshkosh. Acquiring the FRV gave WC the ability to shut down street running on their f... (more)