Ex Soo 6357, nee MILW 191, starting to get the trademark SP grime.

Weary from the toils of the WGRF fall blast in Chicago, we ventured up to the north woods to see what we could find of the SOO and GBW. What greets us in Stevens Point was a sight for sore and sl... (more)

Big power off the Conroe District. Empty grain trains from Beaumont would tie up here and power sets would get fueled. A wary eye is on the mainline as this photo was taken as there was a loaded... (more)

"Take 'em to roundhouse track 9" were the favorite words to hear when cutting off units in Bellville in the morning, as it was the fav spot for nailing the big stuff.

Manchester was a prime spot to catch grain train power laying over after delivering to the south side Port of Houston elevators. Photography releases could be obtained from the PTRA offices in Un... (more)

Tail end just clearing old Baer Jct, passing MofW equipment on main 1 and a switch job servicing the scrap yard, the 3 B36-7s, 1 B30-7 (the "quad 7s") and SD40T-2 are about to squeeeeeell and turn... (more)

Typical hot and humid south Texas railfanning. Having eyed this set all afternoon amongst 3 other power sets laying over, we waited until the outbound crew of the 545 started out of the e/f, wanti... (more)

A little er, "convincing" to the employee resulted in the previously front coupled kodachrome to magically become un-front coupled. Hell, what else were we going to spend that hard earned money o... (more)

Hard to imagine this as a UP unit, it's like the features on this unit just scream for the scarlet and gray to come back....

Summertime in south Texas finds the normal slight haze in the air meeting one of the hordes of Smithers Lake (HL&P) coal trains that kept the Santa Fe alive. This stretch is on a slight downhill ... (more)

ex MP 8008; MP 1404, then tried out with UP 1356 but it just wasn't enough for the fast pace at Cheyenne, so it sat forlornly near the museum pieces at the roundhouse.

Laying over just a stone's throw from thr locks, this ex BN mauler still looks good.

Shhhhhh...don't tell anyone I was shooting SD40s back then! Even in 1985 the end was in the near future for the original SD40s on the "old" UP. Though the new paint looked nice, they started dro... (more)

After a brutal career of ushering Z trains on the MoPac in blue, then grinding rock trains in blue and then yellow, this tired and faded warrior gets a rest at Centennial, looking ahead to a renum... (more)

Been awhile since I was in FW; I believe this is the ex NKP Chicago-Bellevue line. Can't recall the name of the crossing here with the ex Wabash, but it was a hopping place in 1989.