Tom Golden photo.

The black plague attacks the hill.

An eastbound Union Pacific Board of Directors special climbs through Gilluly, Utah, meeting a Utah Railway coal train dropping downgrade on the beautiful morning of September 30, 2000.

WM 7595 sits at Chessie System's Cumberland Shops along with BO 4041, a GP40. The unit is in need of work, and in the fall of 1981 the economy was such that it was likely to sit here for awhile. M... (more)

A Grand Trunk Western rock train travels south on the Wisconsin Central at Theresa, Wisconsin, on July 23, 1995. Powering the train is a colorful set of four EMDs; SD40 No. 5929, GP38-2 No. 5711, ... (more)

Canadian Pacific run-thru container train R202 led by CP SD40 5413 (exQNS&L), M636 4710 and high hood B-unit 5479 (ex SOU Ry) roll across CSX's Grand River Bridge at Grande Ledge, MI. The bridge, ... (more)

Union Pacific 3000, the railroad's "class" SD40, leads a trio of SD40-2s westbound through the City of Industry in southern California in the 1970s. UP's low-numbered SD40s were unique in their u... (more)

After SD40 5979 assisted the westbound VIA Train 1 over Kicking Horse Pass (previous photo), another SD40 numbered 5679 helped Train 1 up the 2.2% grades of Rogers Pass and has cut off at Glacier... (more)

CP SD40 5979 is on the point of VIA’s westbound 15-car Train 1 after helping it up grade from Calgary to Stephen, B.C. where the train is now at M.P. 123 and about to plunge down Kicking Horse P... (more)

CSX coal train T17611 grinds up the hill into Manchester, GA, led by HLCX SD40 6341, CSX SD80MAC 4593, and CSX AC6000 653. 6341's HLCX patches have worn off, reveiling it's heritage SP-look, and ... (more)

Rolling down Saugatuck Hill, westbound CP container on flat car train R503 crosses the Kalamazoo River Bridge on CSX's Grand Rapids Sub. Passing over the 1907 built former swing span bridge, CP SD... (more)

In front of the erstwhile HQ of its former owner with Hotel Roanoke, the dowage queen of the Roanoke skyline in the background, this classic is headed west thru my favorite "funnel".

It was still raining on July 29, 1981 as VIA Train 4 was on new ballast near Decoigne, Alberta and heading for Jasper with its 18 cars.

Semaphore signaling giving free line to a TRANSAP freight train, in Coihue station. There are very few semaphores of this type currently operating in Chilean railways.

Gritty glint
On Montana Rail Link’s Mullan Pass, fourteen locomotives head back to Helena, Montana, as a light engine movement on the afternoon of February 6, 1997. Two 4-unit helper ... (more)