A Norfolk Southern locomotive being returned to its home, after assisting Capitol Limited Train #30 to D.C a day prior.
Rebuilt using EMD switcher frame and trucks and using a Caterpillar 3512 prime mover with a Kato generator. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.
World famous "Auto Train" is about an hour away from it's terminal seen in Seville Florida
No name of the slide. From my collection.
TRRA 4002 and 4001, the two SD60I's on the Terminal's roster, have just tied onto their first outbound cut at Luther Yard in St. Louis. The crew would make a double and a triple before departing h... (more)
GP9R #2002, owned by The Prairie Line, prepares to pull a cut of cars out of the Oakley plant in St. Louis. The Burlington Northern hoppers up front add a nice touch.
A local heads north past The Steel Works in Granite City, led by an NS SD40-2.
CN 500 is leaving Ardent Mills with six grain empties.
A pair of GE Super 7's are working the Ohio Central's ZVL-1 job as they spot three covered hoppers on the spur for AMG Vanadium outside of Zanesville, Ohio. Once the cars are spotted, they will ti... (more)
With darkness falling, a pair of Bessemer & Lake Erie SD38's lead Canadian National local L523 as it heads south from Conneaut back to Greenville with 9 ore hoppers in tow and splits the searchlig... (more)
66100 passing through Reading.
70017 with an intermodal train, passing Wolvercote.
D9537 departing from Weybourne.
D3940 shunting at Weybourne.
CSX local L022, with SD40-2 8840, getting ready to bring a cut of cars to ADM Milling.
After unloading passengers, the City of New Orleans makes its way out of Union Station with IC 1027 leading the way to yard the train at the 18th Street Facility.
A pair of NRE Gensets pull out of the Indiana Harbor Belt's Blue Island Yard and roll east under the signals at CP 107 in Dolton, Illinois. At Dolton, the IHB Main Line and the CSX Barr Subdivisio... (more)
Alvia Santander-Madrid at La Horadada Canyon.
Metra 211, the CB&Q heritage unit, shoves into Chicago Union Station to load a train of passengers for Aurora.
A typical Chicago scene....on most days. It's certainly not everyday you see an Illinois Central locomotive leading an Amtrak train, but that's what we have here as a late City of New Orleans shov... (more)
In 2022, swiss railway celebrated 175 years of operation. In april 2024, the Re 460 # 019 of the SBB has still the special paint scheme for this anniversary. She pulls the IR 1967 of the line IR36... (more)
A Gary Railway slug set loads bottle cars at the #1 Bop Shop.
CSX I141 with a consist you may have seen 20 years ago, makes its way south on the Toledo Sub at South Deshler.
A BNSF manifest quickly glides down the Tehachapi grade and approaches tunnel 9 on a warm summer afternoon.
Plant power for Alton Steel takes it easy on this beautiful afternoon. We have a pair of Gulf Coast Rail Services SW1200's and a GP9R that still wears Grand Trunk paint. The two SW1200's are forme... (more)
CZ / 220 Ceske Budejovice - Praha (IC 540 BUDVAR) 175 m
ALS 2204 and 2205 are on final to the Terminal's Madison Yard with a transfer from their own Gateway Yard. These units look spectacular!
FEC 416 and FEC 412 lead manifest train 204 across the San Sebastian River bridge in St. Augustine, Florida. This is an example of two different paint schemes that have been applied to the FEC GP... (more)
One of Metra's newest locomotives pulls into the Glenview station with an outbound rush hour train on a rainy March afternoon.
Flying past the preserved Folkston Depot, CSX I032 makes its way north with two AC motors pulling a cut of loaded juice cars out of Tropicana's factory near Tampa and a healthy amount of UPS traff... (more)
United States Sugar 4-6-2 148 leads a train over Lake Okeechobee in Moore Haven, Florida on the trains return trip to Clewiston. She was built in April 1920 by American Locomotive Company (ALCO) f... (more)
BNSF C-CAMCDJ pulling up Logan Hill
US Sugar Corporation (USSC) 312 brings an excursion train back into Clewiston, Florida after the USSC 148 lead oassengers out into the sugar cane fields of Florida. Guests were treated to ice crea... (more)
487 sitting in the shop
Here, operating on a portion of the former Boston & Maine Hillsboro Branch now owned by CSX, the Milford-Bennington Railroad loaded stone shuttle train passes the iconic Suburban Propane sign and ... (more)
Old liveryCarriages still in old livery of North Frontier Railways powered by WAG-9 skipping Nemilichery
BNSF 5711 shoves on westbound empties.
UP 9074, 8935, 6172, & 6605 power a westbound mixed freight.
BNSF 9738 leads an eastbound loaded coal train.
17014 Hyderabad Deccan Pune Express via Osmanabad over long Bridge near Gad Deodari towed by Pune WDM3d, Maharashtra, Osmanabad.
Florida East Coast 148 couples onto its empty cane train at dawn.
CZ / 220 Plzen - Ceske Budejovice - Brno (R 662 ROZMBERK) 115 m
CZ / 220 Ceske Budejovice - Praha (R 724 VLTAVA) 170 m
L614 departs Apex with a pair of former Conrail GP38-2s.
NS P46 uses CSX's Aberdeen Sub for a portion of their trek between Raleigh and Durham. This edition has a long hood forward C6M for power.
The CN usually keeps their executive train parts indoors at the Woodcrest Shops at Homewood. I took a tour back in 2012 and the 103 was parked out back with the cars. I am unsure the fate of the 1... (more)
The late 90's for the BNSF seen them extremely power short. With the merger the power ended up scattered all over hell. A person didn't know what to expect with the passage of the next train. Here... (more)
Classic Santa Fe in the 90s. Pretty red and silver units pulling intermodal around a nice curve. The curve west of Chillicothe has always been a fan favorite for many years. Recent times, the curv... (more)
An Alliance, TX, to Willow Spring, IL, Z-train (kind of) drops downgrade into Dahinda and over the Spoon River on the BNSF Chillicothe Sub. The train is roughly 165 miles from Chicago.
A land barge California bound stacker crosses over at Stronghurst at 40mph. The train is working west on the Chillicothe Sub. With 4 units here, 4 units in middle, and thousands of feet of intermo... (more)
In the 90s, Amtrak actually serviced a purpose. They ran trains and hauled some mail. Here, the Southwest Chief roars east at Stronghurst on the Chili Sub with a decent size train. Scanned Slide f... (more)
Back in 2006, a pair of 40's rumble out of Davis Jct. on the IC&E with the Chicago Clearing to Huron manifest train. Here the train passes under highway 72 on the westside of town.
A McCook to Los Angeles auto train has just passed an eastbound intermodal train near Dahinda on the Chilli Sub. Pair of blue and yellow charge west towards next crew change at Fort Madison, IA, i... (more)
I shot a lot of SP trains around Galesburg in the mid-90s. One thing I didn't get leading were these Colt Belt Dash 8s. Here, a pair of them lead a westbound SP train over the ATSF Chili Sub towar... (more)
A covered hopper train heads East over the Rockville bridge at dusk with a GE AC44C6M leading. As the sun sets, the Susquehanna River reflects the sky's vibrant orange and red colors. The Rockvill... (more)
The Green One NS 6800, the only locomotive of its kind, sits in Rose Yard along with some other EMDs.
I shot this at Wilsmere Yard near Wilmington DE on July 8, 1978. A Baltimore & Ohio SW1, circa 1940, and a former Chesapeake & Ohio NW2, about nine years newer, sit next to a boxcar with a roof ha... (more)
Ronceverte Refreshments: AMTK 160, the Pepsi Can, leads the westbound Cardinal through Ronceverte, West Virginia, along the CSX Alleghany Subdivision.
Last of its Kind NS 8688 is the last GE Dash 8 on Norfolk Southern's fleet, and it'll probably stay that way for a while. Though it was retired in the late 2000s, this C39-8E found a new l... (more)
