UP's Adams-Wisconsin Rapids way freight holds at Nekoosa Jct while the CN's afternoon switch job enters the north leg of the wye.

MILW 2024 leads a Soo Line train making a set-out at Duplainville, WI in April of 1987. The pair of GP40's used the new connector track between the ex-MILW mainline and the original Soo Line. The ... (more)

One of the yard switcher slug sets is taking a hack to the caboose track. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

Slug mothers got a reprieve and lasted somewhat longer than other GP40s on the roster. This unit is going mine runs on the numerous branches in the "hollers" of extreme southwest Virgin... (more)

N & W crews complained about these being slippery and they seemed banished to ex NKP/WAB tracks for many years but by the 90s they were roaming around. Here's one from when there was variety in c... (more)

A Union Pacific local, with "GP38-3" 2507 and GP39-2 2732 for power, rolls into Hoffman Yard. UP 2507 is a rebuilt GP40 leased from Helm Leasing. It was originally Louisville & Nashvil... (more)

One of the freshest Chessie paint jobs I've seen and a "basic" 40. Photo by Jim Satterwhite.

CSX R171, the former OBSS (Orange Blossom Special-South), with RF&P 121 plus four, charges west, Main to No. 1, past the CPLs guarding Rossville interlocking on the Philadelphia Sub ... (more)

After switching local industries, the crew on Cotton Belt 7607 takes a dinner break in Huntington Beach.

Faded glory. Having once been resplendent in SAL green, then drab in SCL and in two days to be owned by the "railroad with no name", this unit awaits its next assignment in the humid so... (more)

WALSENBURG CO July 4 1978 – D&RGW GP40 3085 and four other B-truck locos smoke their way out of town with a mixed freight in tow. According to www.drgw.net 3085 was, "Retired by UP 25-May-2... (more)

A Southern Pacific freight approaches its Chicago destination at LaVergne in Berwyn, Illinois, on Burlington Northern’s busy Aurora to Chicago triple-track main line on May 28, 1992. A trio of R... (more)

N&W 1373 waits in the hole, as a manifest freight heads east on the former Nickel Plate Road Chicago-Fort Wayne mainline.

Former IC unit. Photo by Dave Petke, from my collection.

A former SCL unit appears to be the yard switcher on this date. By this point the switcher usually was a 6-axle.