An afternoon Cumbres turn with 483 on the point blows for the Coxo crossing on the old dirt road from Chama to Cumbres. A helper is cut in ahead of the caboose.

Looks like a good way a lose a few fingers. Usually a brake club or just a stick was used to hold the link up. The F.C.S.A on the journal box lid stands for Ferrocarril Santa Ana, an FES predece... (more)

A brace of North Shore steeple cabs gets ready for a days work while a CNW pushpull flies by headed for Chicago. This is Pettibone yard just north of the Great Lakes stop on the Skokie Valley lin... (more)

SP 2472 blasts around a curve with its consist of Harriman heavyweight cars. The road foreman would be happy with the economy haze from the stack, the fire is in good balance and using fuel effic... (more)

This was the 4449's break in run to Wishram and return after restoration in Portland.

Mixed train daily. Except for the semaphores, this is a pretty ordinary picture. But what I find interesting eight years later is what is on the rear of the train, a long mixture of material han... (more)

Following a flanger spreader train that will help clear the new snow over Cumbres, the 480 leads the regular doubleheaded Monday freight west past the Alamosa yard limits.

No fluffy powder here....wet heavy late spring Sierra cement.

I spent one day chasing the North Shore, riding from the Loop to Great Lakes and walking between the Great Lakes station and Pettibone yard. This is a Chicago bound train on the Skokie Valley lin... (more)

A two engine train heads timetable north from Guatemala City toward Rancho and Puerto Barrios. The railroad has been nationalized, but the tenders of both engines are still lettered FIdeCA for th... (more)

Eighteen months after being swallowed by UP, some things had not changed on the former SP. Just north of San Luis Obispo a brace of old SP road dogs brings a train down Cuesta grade, the heat from... (more)

Fegua freight heading uphill from Rancho to Guatemala City. The GE diesels have just been delivered. They are 900 h.p B-B units with Cat prime movers and built under license in Spain. Contrast n... (more)

Some fall color accents the scene as the 4014 slowly exits a red flagged work area between Echo and Morgan.

With the first rays of an early morning sun illuminating a split smoke plume, a train of empty log cars pulls into Camp 14 on the Rayonier Hoquiam logging line. Of particular interest in this vie... (more)

It is slightly after 4 p.m. and 315 drifts down grade westbound from Cumbres. There is a slight upgrade here after the track loops around and crosses Wolf Creek, and I was hoping maybe just maybe... (more)