Santa Fe 306C heads up a cluster of F units for the Super Chief at Archer Avenue in Chicago. As seen to the left this is the early Amtrak era, and some of the former Santa Fe passenger cars sport ... (more)

Milwaukee steeple cabs E80, E81 and E82 along with F7A 81A are parked at Tacoma's Tide flats Yard. The electrics were retired June 15, 1974 and are waiting to be scrapped. The F unit, freshly repa... (more)

MILW E9 no. 35C gets its face washed at North La Crosse, WI as the North Coast Hiawatha (Amtrak) makes a station stop for passengers, a crew change, and water for the locomotive tanks. During the ... (more)

MILW 5802 leads another big GE, and SD40-2 and an SD45 into Black River Jct. along Milwaukee's Black River yard in Tukwila, just south of Seattle. This location was where the branch into Seattle, ... (more)

Back in 1972 I had the opportunity to access Milwaukee Road's Pigs Eye Yard and was able to get up close and personal with the retarder below the hump. Here a MILW cow-calf set has shoved a string... (more)

Some Interlay employee had a little fun with some of the soon to be retired SD45s making a "Rocky Lives" stencil and applying it to several units. This unit was done operating and featur... (more)

Six Santa Fe F units are lined up at their Archer Avenue passenger engine facility south of downtown Chicago. The units are under Amtrak operation at this point and are being readied for an outbou... (more)

ATSF 302C and 305C take a rest at the former Santa Fe Archer Avenue coach yard and passenger locomotive facility south of downtown Chicago on a sunny September day in 1972. Now run by Amtrak, thes... (more)

One of the oldest locomotives on the BN roster at merger day was BN 991, a 1946 model NW5, one of EMD's earliest attempt at a road switcher. X-GN 191, the unit worked its final years in the Pacifi... (more)

BN 1792 and 1754 rev up after slowing to cross the Rock Island bridge over the Columbia River at Rock Island, WA, about 12 miles east of Wenatchee. The x-GN and x-NP GP9s have 40 empty 40 ft. boxc... (more)

SP 4333 and six more SD9s get a free wash in the November rain at Brooklyn Yard on Portland, Oregon's southeast side. The venerable SDs still have some good years ahead of them at this point, and ... (more)

A healthy Canadian summer consist enters the casueway along Brule Lake as leaves Swan Landing on its way from Jasper to Hinton, AB. Perhaps the most beautiful passenger train still running in Nort... (more)

BNSF 6145 and five other SD9s await their uncertain future at BNSF's Interbay roundhouse area. They wear various shades of BN green, and former BN 6122 still wears a BN logo. Joining the group is ... (more)

VIA train No. 2, The Canadian, rounds the curve at Swan Landing in late afternoon light with Brule Lake in the background. The train has just exited Jasper National Park and will make a station st... (more)

The eastbound Canadian is now stopped at the tunnel along hwy 1 above Field, BC as the crew determines the power is low on fuel. They decide not to risk the remainder of the climb, but instead bac... (more)