Rio Grande's Tintic Local prepares to depart the mainline at Springville for a journey down the Tintic Branch. Today's duties will include stops at the Keigley dolomite quarry at milepost 16 and a... (more)

Sitting in the Milwaukee Road's engine facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is GP9 312. Built in May 1959, this engine would later become Iowa Railroad Company 312, eventually being scrapped in the ... (more)

With GP9 4001 and GP38 3843 (nicknamed "Barney" for its purple-y paint scheme) leading the charge, Goderich-Exeter train #581 is westbound through Mitchell, Ontario, on a brisk January day.

The sound of roaring 567-series EMD's fill the canyon east of Ashcroft as a short work train heads east of Kamloops, led by two GP9's, the lead locomotive still wearing colors of Northern Alberta ... (more)

Sure, this is a scene on CN Rail, and technically, these are all CN locomotives, but show some respect on here to poor little Northern Alberta Railway, with no name in the database and scant few p... (more)

CP geep pauses next to the depot in South Edmonton.

Soo 4232 and 711 are being prepared for another day of working the paper mills around the Wisconsin Rapids area.

Back in 1997 BN power was still around in force, especially here in the Twin Ports

While most Soo GP7's and GP9's soldiered on in there as built configuration until retirement a handful that had been involved in accidents received low noses. Some of them actually received kits f... (more)

Old Geeps still hanging in there.

The beautiful Sierra Northern Woodland Branch has begun to show its age. Far in the distance, SERA 47 approaches Conway with the Sacramento River Dinner Train in tow.

Repainted ex-CN 7030 is coupled up to all of the coaches stored in Plymouth, it is pulling the "Sam Pinsly" out for photos. The other cars, which have worked for various tourist entities in the a... (more)

BN 1941 and 1891 at Bemidji in this shot from my collection. With the huge amount of units from NP/GN/CB&Q/SP&S that BN inherited on merger day in 1970 it was a number of years until they all ende... (more)

Still wearing the paint of recently-consumed regional Northern Alberta Railway, a patched GP9 assuming the number CN 4610 departs Lytton, BC, eastbound across the Thompson River bridge on a bliste... (more)