It was a treat to see the F45 in the head end of the consist. It spent most of it's days sandwiched in the helper set. (Tom Ellis photo)

Southern Railway 3170 sitting at Grand Junction in the display yard on a cool Friday night

Inbound freight with a leader from one of my favorite roads which has yet to be butchered up after the merger in December.

N&W 1620 is about to cross the former Virginian Ry mainline with an empty hopper train at South Yard in Roanoke. The empties have come from the Belews Creek Power Plant on the Shenandoah Division ... (more)

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

A trio of CSX Transportation EMD locomotives in three paint schemes pause at Burlington Northernā€™s Clyde Yard locomotive facility in Cicero, Illinois, on February 9, 1992. Resting closer to the ... (more)

The Royal Gorge excursion train weaves along the Arkansas River as it heads back to CaƱon City.

GTW SD40 5910 mates up with two CN SD40s at the sanding tower in Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific's yard in West Duluth. Soon it will be on its way to Ft. Francis, ON with a freight.

CN 5209 is ready to depart the Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific yard in West Duluth and head to Ft. Francis, ON. The third unit is GTW SD40 no. 5910, which likely ended up as a DW&P unit.

CNW 872 waits for a semaphore so it can depart Saint Francis, WI. in November of 1986. The 3 light engines will then head to Oak Creek to pick up an empty coal train. The engines are sitting on wh... (more)

A DW&P transfer from Pokegama Yard has reached the connection to C&NW at South Itasca after traversing Missabe's Interstate Branch which ran from here to Adolph, MN. DWP 5908 and other SD40s & GP3... (more)

CNW SD40 883, SD45 955 and borrowed CR SD40-2 6509 head south near Haugen, WI with train 406 from Superior to Chicago which handled a lot of CN/DWP interchange traffic.

Nice little collection of paint jobs here. Photo by Mike Dolenski, from my collection.

I gotta say, for a unit to have gone so long without TLC it would be hard to ask for a better looking result after many years. I would almost take this compared to "whiskers" brand new.... (more)

CN "mudhens" 5090 & 5198 exit the CN mainline with a westbound freight and enter CP's Mission-Huntingdon branch to head across the Fraser River and access the CP main into Vancouver. Thi... (more)