Four elderly geeps are powering the long-distance local on the line between Montgomery and Birmingham. In the photo, the crew is working the sidings at Elmore, where the branch to Wetumpka split ... (more)

Milwaukee Road 3030 West approaches the big tunnel under the Bitterroot Mountains. The railroad later renumbered the lead EMD to 160. Apparently this freight was light enough to forego a lead Litt... (more)

The overnight "Montreal Limited" from New York to Montreal lifts out of CPR's Westmount station for the last two miles of its run to CPR's Windsor Station.

Boston & Maine F7A 4228, F7B 4267B, GP9 1742 and GP9 1744. Photo from my collection, no photographer information on slide.

Northbound OCS by Fair Siding, viewed from Susquehanna Trail highway overpass.

"The Laurentian" races south over the Great Chazy River. The previous day's northbound "Laurentian" had a third PA added to it in Rouses Point before going to Montreal and all... (more)

WP high-hood GP20 No. 2007 idles in the switch engine facility in WP's yard. Note the interesting WP tankcar at right.

In anticipation of delivery of seven AEM7’s, SEPTA wanted to test the new locomotives’ burden on its electrical distribution supplying the former Reading electrification. A Sunday, the slowest... (more)

Little Joe E70 is lead helper for Milwaukee Road westbound hot-shot 171 West at Stetson, ID. The road freight that originated in Chicago will soon arrive in Avery, where it will change crews. Also... (more)

Amtrak train 710 makes a station stop in Merced, CA, under beautiful springtime skies. In the lead are two ex-SP FP7s, one already repainted into Amtrak livery. The train is on the station track, ... (more)

Getting close to the division point at Grand Junction,, the westbound Rio Grande Zephyr enters the “suburbs” at Palisade, Colorado.

On the first day of Spring the wet snow is falling as the head-end crew of an excursion train to Drummondville confer before backing their power down the two miles to Windsor Station to pick up th... (more)

Ex-PRR SD45 6113 heads an eight units lashup of GE and GM products with a westbound freight at Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Bound for Framingham, MA, a Penn Central commuter train departs Boston's South Station beneath a bank of semaphores that dated to the station's opening in 1899. An ex-PRR E8 leads former New Haven... (more)

IC 8075, a Paducah rebuilt GP10 featuring frog eye headlights, a Mars light, ox yoke air filters and quad exhaust stacks leads a freight south out of Markham Yard through Homewood, IL. It is fitti... (more)