Four Super Fleet units lead a WB Santa Fe around the top of the Loop. Trailing units are C44-9W # 638 and # 616, both built 2-94 and B40-8W # 513, blt. 10-90 (as was the leader).

For my 100th post on RP.Net I decided to show my opinion of the best railfan location, Tehachapi Loop. In this view light helpers head WB on the top of the loop. The MKM initials on the lead unit ... (more)

Erie Mining/LTV Steel owned three Alco C420’s. Here is # 7222 pushing an empty crude ore train to one of the many Hoyt Lakes ore loading sites. I believe it's being remotely operated from the co... (more)

Erie Mining/LTV Steel owned just one Alco C424, number 7230. It was built 10-64 as # 500. It was typically assigned to the Dunka Branch crude ore trains. In the above view, the 7230 is just beginn... (more)

Erie Mining/LTV Steel owned three Alco C420’s. Here we see # 7222 working a crude ore train at one of the many Hoyt Lakes ore loading sites. Number 7222 was delivered as # 602 in 1965 and in 199... (more)

Erie Mining/LTV Steel owned three Alco C420’s. Number 7222 was delivered as # 602 in 1965 and in 1991 was assigned to the Hoyt Lakes plant site where it worked crude ore trains while numbers 421... (more)

An empty ore train is pictured at the West Portal of Cramer Tunnel as it returns to the plant site from the dock. Power is an A-B-B set of F units plus a GP38 and a C420. F9A # 4211 was delivered... (more)

The top set of orders have been taken by the engine crew and now the rear end conductor snags the bottom set of orders the old fashioned way at BN-Saunders. This was good stuff.

The operator at BN-Saunders puts the orders out for the crew of a BN coal train (I believe due to MOW activities). The top orders are for the engine crew and the bottom orders are for the caboose ... (more)

In 1991 I was in Duluth-Superior chasing the DMIR while on my way to Erie Mining when I ran across this operation completely by chance. This was before you could easily research everything on the ... (more)

Onboard the Incan Superior. After my friends and I stumbled upon this ship, the crew was nice enough to invite us on board for the grand tour and unrestricted photo time. The gesture was much appr... (more)

The 1989 version of the New River train (Huntington, WV to Hinton, WV) is EB a few miles out of Huntington and running thru heavy Ohio River fog as it passes under a classic C&O cantilever signal ... (more)

The Montreal to Sudbury section of VIA 1, the WB Canadian, rolls by the large Ontario Northland shop complex in North Bay as it prepares to stop at the station just ahead. Due to VIA budget cuts t... (more)

Ontario Northland FP7Am 1984 and mated TEE trainset sit outside the North Bay shops on a sunny afternoon.

Conrail TV79 crosses over the Watervliet Reservoir Dam and the Normanskill Creek about 12 miles out of Selkirk Yard on its way from New Jersey to Chicago. Trailing units are SSW GP60 # 9626 and SP... (more)