To commemorate America's Bicentennial, many railroads painted special Bicentennial units in glorious red, white, and blue schemes. One of the best was the one done by Grand Trunk Western, which fe... (more)

Crossing the diamonds at 21st street in Chicago, a CB&Q (Burlington Route) freight with GP30 #957 , GP20 #935 and GP40 #172. 35mm slide from my collection, photographer unknown.

This NJ Transit equipment extra appeared unexpectedly minutes ahead of an expected CSX freight. Either way, it was a nice change of pace as NJ Transit's fleet of aging GP40PH-2s are not often see... (more)

The classification lights, numberboards and headlight on Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 4014 are illuminated in preparation move its move to UP's West Colton Yard in Bloomington just hours away. Since the... (more)

CN SD50F No. 5408 and mate wait for their next move at Chilliwack, BC on a snowy February 15, 1986. Over the next 24 hours blizzard conditions would prevail, Hwy 1 would be closed in the Fraser Ca... (more)

A Mopac freight finishes its air test and is ready to depart Yard Center on Chicago's south side. At this time Yard Center was shared between MP and Louisville & Nashville. Power on this train inc... (more)

Santa Fe eastbound LA to Chicago train 881 is about twenty minutes into it's cross country trip passing Santa Fe Springs

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)

The Warren G. Magnuson campaign special rolls east along Lake Easton as "Maggie" runs for yet another re-election. By this time the Amtrak Empire Builder had moved off this former NP line to the e... (more)

The 315 sits in front of the coal and sand tower in Chama during a night time photo op.

The Bloomer Shippers Line Railroad used two Geeps to plow out the entire railroad Friday. Former Northern Pacific 7591, the Bloomer's first loco, gets some attention as trackworkers use scoop shov... (more)

Eastbound manifest exiting the Sunset Route, crossing the ATSF mainline, as it continues to the West Colton classification yard

A westbound Conrail TV intermodal train led by three GE B36-7s rounds Horseshoe Curve west of Altoona, Pennsylvania on October 21, 1988 and meets an eastbound coal train headed downgrade powered b... (more)

The westbound Super C blasts through Chillicothe with a warbonnet GE leading a F45 and SD45 at high speed on a relatively short train. Note the jointed rail and the dust trail being kicked up by 9... (more)

A cold and foggy winter day greets Seaboard Coast Line 1st 188, operating as Extra 1644 North, crossing the (original) NS diamond at Raleigh Tower while the engineer prepares to negotiate some tig... (more)