Nickel Plate Road 901 rolls across High Bridge just north of Quincy. NKP 901 pulled three passenger trains from St. Paris to Maplewood and return this day. NKP 901, formerly CNRY 85, was re... (more)

A westbound work train has just passed beneath the 10th Mountain Division Memorial Highway at Pando on Rio Grande's Tennessee Pass mainline. Note that more than a dozen workers with hardhats are r... (more)

Four EMD units, 3 GP30s and a GP35, all riding on Alco trucks, are northbound toward St. Louis in the short days of the year and the sun sets quickly.

In one of my earliest railroad photo endeavors after moving to Ohio, a brisk Saturday afternoon finds me in the village of South Zanesville with exhibit A on why the Ohio Central used to be awesom... (more)

Cimarron Valley's daily run to the BNSF interchange at Dodge City is "gettin' out of Dodge" on it's way back to Satanta and S.W. Kansas on ATSF's former branch line to Boise City, Okla. The GP-3... (more)

Ex DRGW GP30 #3004 is eastbound near Hugoton, KS with 3 loads and 2 empties.

Rio Grande's first GP30, with a GP35 and a second GP30, lead a train of mine empties on the Tintic Branch, bound for reloading at Geneva Steel's dolomite quarry at Keigley.

"Evening Spin"

A nifty quad of original Rio Grande GP30s lead the Provo Local, approaching American Fork. The train consist is lighter than usual today, with nine cars including three pipe loads retrieved at the... (more)

Tom Bowers photo.

Westbound warriors: A Soo Line westbound passes the Brookfield depot on the nice spring day of May 26, 1987. Power was two GP30s and a GP9, all of them in battle-worn paint but still doing what th... (more)

The Rio Grande Zephyr train #18 prepares to stop at the sturdy brick and tile passenger station at Provo. An EMD GP30 was added to the train at Salt Lake City due to a mechanical problem with an F... (more)

Conductor James gets a switch before pulling the 2230 into the yard.

On a warm and sunny July 1988 morning, Rio Grande's Maintenance of Way forces dump carloads of steel mill slag (utilized for track ballast) at milepost 693 of the westward main track at Mapleton, ... (more)

A pair of Rio Grande GP30s enjoy a quiet October evening parked near the trainmaster's office in Provo Yard. D&RGW 3001, built in April 1962, was the first of 28 GP30s built by EMD for the Rio Gra... (more)