UP #844 waits for the Big Boy to roll in to begin the Spike150 Celebration outside Ogden Station in Utah. This ceremony commemorated the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike at Pro... (more)

The Iowa Northern had leased some LLPX units to help out while their power gets PTC installed back in 2020 These units have been pretty common on the local Waterloo switcher during the day time. H... (more)

E9As 9913 and 9902 stabled after the evening commute.

Rebuilt using EMD switcher frame and trucks and using a Caterpillar 3512 prime mover with a Kato generator. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

The hottest train on the system in these parts. The Denver to Salt Lake Z train. Unfortunately 6916 isn't a DD40X on the UP roster. But it does have quite the history, and as one point was almost ... (more)

Climbing Cajon Pass as it heads east from Los Angeles to Barstow, and passing through Cajon Pass' iconic Mormon Rocks area, is BNSF Railway train U-LACBAR5-30Z, a "Special Unit Train" co... (more)

With the pair of Alton & Southern SD60's in charge, UP train MBNAS (Bloomington, IL to Gateway Yard in East Saint Louis, IL) prepares its departure out of the Bloomington Yard. Clouds were heavy i... (more)

Fisheating Creek. The FEC 148 charter passes over Fisheating Creek, the name of which is derived from the Creek "Thlothlopopka-Hatchee"--translated as "the creek where fish ... (more)

During late 1976 and all of 1977, you didn't need the internet to know that there were three E7s still in service on Conrail's North Jersey Coast Line (former New York & Long Branch) between South... (more)

It was a happening morning at Alton & Southern's Gateway Yard as SD60's 2204 and 2205 build a train along Third Rail Road in Alorton, while UP 3019 is on hold, waiting for an available track to ya... (more)

The Caboose Backs In | Freshly-restored Frisco caboose number 1291 eases into position at the Van Buren, AR depot on a cloudy Saturday, April 27, 2024. The pair of Alco C420s powering the t... (more)

Classics NS 9549, a beat-up Dash 9, awaits rebuild at Juniata. In the background, an SD45-2 is awaiting accident repairs, and 8688, the Juniata fuel tender, sits with a wrecked Dash 9.

Ex-Pennsylvania Railroad.

Victory lap. For both the Empress and the photographer. In 2011, my last visit to see her in action was met with "diesel substitute" as she went down with repair. She was repaired, tes... (more)

By the summer of 1978 NJDOT's inherited fleet of ex Penn Central E8s an E7s were really worn out and unreliable. Seeing a freight engine on a Conrail passenger train was never a surprise, although... (more)