EL SD45 no. 3603 and an SDP45 await their eastbound assignment at the locomotive servicing area at Burlington's Dayton Bluff Yard at St. Paul, MN. This late December day featured morning temps aro... (more)

Nine years before BNSF, Alliance looked like the merger had already taken place with run through coal train power from Santa Fe on hand. It also predicted the future dominance of GE in the North A... (more)

CP GP9s 8676 and 8832 show off their different paint schemes from the front in this view at Nanaimo, BC on Vancouver Island. CP was pretty aggressive about painting their motive power in the Actio... (more)

CNW 6706 and 6705 looking good in their new yellow and green scheme ready a train to head east out of Altoona Yard on a cool January day. At this time eastbound trains 406 and 408 came here from S... (more)

UP 3303, an SD40-2 leads SD45 3630 and another SD40-2 on a westbound (northbound) freight. It has finished setting cars out at Kent's yard and auto unload facility and the engineer is applying a b... (more)

An amply powered coal train is parked north of Angora, NE awaiting a new crew. The third unit is a venerable ex-CB&Q SD9. Coal traffic was experiencing tremendous growth during this period, and ev... (more)

CN 5347 and 5318 idle in the snow at Hope, BC as a February blizzard shuts down Highway 1 and slows down both CN and CP. The only moving train on CN spotted this day was a work train.

1982 was a recession year, and that coupled with nearing the end of the ore hauling season began generating lines of stored SD9s and 18s on the Missabe at Proctor yard. On an especially cold, rain... (more)

This vintage shot of Superfleet power racing west on a manifest at Mazon, IL is not what it seems. This is a BNSF freight, and Heritage I orange and green is on the property. The days of pure un-r... (more)

Milwaukee Road's former Winona, MN freight house still stands next to the brick passenger station used by Amtrak. The current tenant has added a modern garage door, but lack of attention to the ex... (more)

CN train 304 rolls east along the shore of Moose Lake on Yellowhead Pass. The weather is hazy due to warm temperatures and forest fires in the area. The train is mostly forest products, and has ju... (more)

A westbound BN intermodal train cruises across the Clark Fork near Noxon, MT on the former NP mainline as it makes its way from Missoula to Spokane, WA and Pacific Northwest destinations. BN GP39-... (more)

DMIR 145 heads up a quartet of SD9s at DMIR's Proctor diesel shops while Bessemer & Lake Erie SD38-2 892, affectionately known as "the Pumpkin" looks on. The 892 would later become DMIR ... (more)

DMIR 145 and 132 head up a string of stored power at Keenan, MN in October 1980. The two units are Phase 3 SD9s, with 145 featuring the newer arrowhead color scheme. 132 has the original scheme, m... (more)

CNW GP35 830 and two GP30s approach the diamonds at Deval tower in Des Plaines, IL. The train is headed north out of Proviso yard to Milwaukee, WI. This freight line crosses the northwest commuter... (more)