A few minutes after midnight this CN northbound is working hard, breaking the silence and briefly illuminating a misty McKechnie Lake underneath the stars at our makeshift campsite. It took a numb... (more)

"Mini Trainset, Big Help"

During the early morning hours of June 13th, 2022, a portion of Metro-North Railroad's lower New Haven Line suffered a weather-related catenary p... (more)

Stormy skies and their results. The last of the former Southern Pacific SD9s for the Port of Tillamook Bay slowly rots around the remains of other locomotives and railcars that have found new liv... (more)

The Farmers Valley job heads down the branch.

A new air compressor is installed into Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6891 inside the Backshop at UP’s Burnham Shops at Denver, Colorado, on the evening of December 17, 2015. Normally this can be... (more)

Running light, a Susquehanna C430 rounds the bend in front of the run-down depot in Tully, New York.

The Creek In Corinth. On the afternoon of Sunday, May 29, 2022, Saratoga Corinth & Hudson Railway's Alco 5 stops by Sturdevant Creek in Corinth, New York. This engine, built in May 1947, wa... (more)

In my 30 years of railroad photography, I can say without a shadow of doubt, that I've never photographed a B39-8E, F7B, F7B, F7B, GP7 consist. The eclectic power leads Tennessee Central Railway ... (more)

After retiring the gas turbine locomotives, the Union Pacific initially donated #18 to the Smokey Hill Railway & Historical Society. The locomotive languished along the former MoPac Coffeyville S... (more)

Burlington Northern train 203 rumbles westbound through Flag Center, Illinois, on the sunny afternoon of April 16, 1988. BN No. 2700 is a GP39-2 built by EMD in 1981, and the third unit is a lease... (more)

Originally built for the Monon, then later painted in L&N colors, #1330 awaits its next assignment.

BNSF Railway train L-CAL0611-12 (the Barstow to Boron and back local) backs into the US Borax plant in Boron CA. Power for today's train is BNSF GP39-2R 2823 (originally CB&Q GP30 940) and 1575 an... (more)

When the Susquehanna was seeking a way to get its stack trains off of Conrail’s ex-Erie main line to avoid interference with Metro-North trains, the first step was acquisition of the former Lehi... (more)

The D&H's Colonie Shops in Watervliet, NY was a great place to see a large number of idling Alcos. The lineup on my father's visit from early 1977 was from left to right: C420 410 - U30C 709 (hid... (more)

A pair of Oakway Leasing SD60s and a cabless U-boat lead a manifest east toward Chicago.