A Santa Fe "quality" TOFC train rolls through Joliet led by a ATSF 574 and two more Superfleet GE's, along with a blue Dash 8-40B. The scheme certainly brightens up a rainy day!

B&O SW9 9605 in Chessie System paint and NW2 mate 9529 are stored at Willard, Ohio, location of Baltimore & Ohio's Willard Yard. This was B&O's largest yard facility in Ohio at the time and includ... (more)

CP 4563 and an SD40-2 have their eastbound empty coal train well underway at Saddle Rock between Yale and Spuzzum, BC. The MLW is equipped as a radio control master, and "slave units" ar... (more)

CP 9533 rolls an empty grain train out of the tunnel and across the Fraser River at Cisco. The train is about to go under the CN bridge as it head northeast to Kamloops, BC. Today eastbound trains... (more)

Bessemer & Lake Erie SD18s and an SD38 await servicing at their Albion, Pa. engine facility between runs. BLE owned six SD18s, 851-856 built in September 1962.

SD's on parade. DMIR 170, a Phase IV SD9 leads a row of six SDs enjoying some summer sun at Keenan, MN. All have been repainted in the Arrowhead scheme, and the 170 now features a GP20 style fan s... (more)

GN 581 had yet to be renumbered when this cab-side shot was taken six months into the BN merger. However, some one, most likely a BN locomotive maintenance crew had removed the bolted on GN logo, ... (more)

WC FP45 6652 and an SD45 mate have their train in dynamic braking as they descend Byron hill and near their arrival at North Fond du Lac (Shops Yard). This unit has enjoyed at least four Santa Fe ... (more)

On my 1978 trip to the Canadian Rockies, I was fortunate to get photos of several "Canadian" consists between Revelstoke and Lake Louise. This might have been my favorite with the FP7-GP... (more)

PTLX 236, a former BNSF (ATSF) SD75M makes a light engine move out of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming yard at Eagle Mills, MI. The crew is CN and they have dropped cars for LS&I and will pick up min... (more)

VIA 6513 slows the SuperContiental for a passenger stop at Matsqui, BC on the beginning of its trek from Vancouver to eastern Canada. In 1985 most cars were CN heritage. This train had a former CP... (more)

Two pairs of SD18/SD9 combos in two color schemes bask in the evening light while SD38AC No. 204 looks on in the background at Keenan Yard on the DMIR at Forbes, Minn. DMIR 176 is an SD18, DMIR 16... (more)

The Empire Builder gets underway after a brief stop at East Auburn. The train was routed through Washington state via the old NP mainline during this period and its next stop is Seattle's King St.... (more)

Wisconsin Great Northern has begun work on the restoration of its recently acquired Mark Train Zephyr, originally constructed in 1934 for the Burlington Railroad. The shovel nose cab unit has an A... (more)

A BNSF freight of carload and vehicle traffic bends around the curve east of Belen, NM and approaches Abo Canyon with a nice variety of early merger color. At this time, none of the units had been... (more)