The sun won't be up for another hour as Amtrak's northbound Montrealer makes its predawn stop at White River Junction, VT, to change crews and pick up a few sleepy passengers. F40 205 leads a Mont... (more)

Claremont & Concord #18 eases a single box car down the steep grade into Coy Paper to perform a setout.

Near sunset, SP SDP45 No. 3202 leads a westbound freight into Stockton just after passing the beginning of double track at Acres. From here south all the way to the Lathrop wye, double track will ... (more)

As a young railfan supervises, the crew of New Haven Railroad local freight NX-18 out of Plainville, CT, switches at Milldale station on the now-abandoned Canal Line branch. An SW1200 was the regu... (more)

Big Alco RSD15 No. 5161 works SP's hump at Eugene Yard. Note the unusual-looking antenna atop the cab. By this time, SP's Alligators were being removed from road service, while Santa Fe's were sti... (more)

MILW 141 prepares to depart Milwaukee, WI in March of 1985. The huge Milwaukee Solvay Coke plant (now gone) is in the background.

A westbound Burlington Northern empty coal train led by EMD SD60M No. 9226 approaches the town of Crawford, Nebraska, while on the south main, a coal load storms out of town with four SD40-2 helpe... (more)

CP GP7 8418 and a pair of GP9s are smoking up the valley with their train brakes as the westbound rail train finishes its descent into Field, BC along the Kicking Horse River.

Wet weather has permitted reflecting on candy cane striping as CP 5661 and another SD40-2 wait for their next assignment in the company of a pair of M630s. CP could sure brighten up a dismal day b... (more)

Three locomotives sit outside Burlington Northern’s Belknap Street roundhouse in Superior, Wisconsin, on October 19, 1985. A couple of radial tracks off the turntable at this former Great Northe... (more)

In its early years, GO Transit utilized a fleet of nine Hawker Siddeley DMUs to provide off-peak service on the Lakeshore route between Oakville and Pickering, ON, via Toronto. This two-car set pa... (more)

Brand new Soo Line EMD SD60M leads train No. 950 south out of Milwaukee at Waterford Avenue in Greenfield, Wisconsin, on February 10, 1990.

SOO 720 leads a westbound freight into Irvine Yard at Chippewa Falls, WI supported by one of SOO's 10 GE U30Cs and a leased DMIR SD9.

Going to work
At the depot in Field, British Columbia, a Canadian Pacific railroader heads to his power on September 16, 2002. Between 1972 and 1985, CP acquired a huge fleet of EMD/GMD... (more)