Late evenings around Wisconsin Rapids usually found the CNW Wisconsin Rapids-Adams freight departing with empty wood chip boxes along with the days accumulation of paper loads and chemical empties... (more)

NS 1605, SR 3243, NS 9720, NS 1385 head east out of Mullens on one of the coal branches that seemed to litter the area. I had always been interested in the area as my grandfather had been born in ... (more)

Clinchfield SD40 3021 awaiting its next work at Spartanburg, SC || Sept. 1975

In the summer of 2007, this was surplus power sitting idle. They are now off the roster. Note that all but one are in the striped-variant paint.

The "Noon Freight" is heading into the siding at Marinette for lunch break. Not much traffic this day. Kodachrome II film.

An eastbound B&O coal drag was climbing Cranberry Grade between Amblersburg and Rodemer, WV on Sept. 21, 1980, led by recently repainted SD40 No. 7593. During this time, coal drags usually ran in... (more)

The first locomotive for Iron Horse Resources Inc.'s newest line, the Gardendale Railroad.This unit will operate in South Texas hauling mainly frac sand.Seen here outside the former Manufacturers ... (more)

The transfer table, car and locomotive back shop at Erwin was still present in 1979. Front to back, we have an SD40, an ex-SCL SD45 (swapped for a Clinchfield U36C), an F7A, and a rare bird GP7. T... (more)

Western Maryland SD-40 number 7570 shoves hard on a Westbound Chessie System manifest train as it ascends the ex B&O's Sand Patch grade at Fairhope, Pa. on June 24, 1981.

It's a nice day in southwestern Virginia as a Clinchfield "Extra South" swings around the curve just across the tracks from the depot (to the left and behind the photographer). The other main here... (more)

THE WESTERN MARYLAND LIVES thanks to Mr. Gerald Altizer and His Georges Creek Railway ! Mr Altizer is a huge WM Fan and went to the effort to find genuine WM locos for His new line in Maryland . T... (more)

L&N leaned heavily to four-axle power through Montgomery back in the 1970s but, as this photo shows, the C-Cs showed up as well.

No. 12 was sabotaged by someone removing a rail on a curve just before a fill on a downgrade at Mile 4 during the night. The 2 Canadian Pacific hoists were leased at $10,000 per day per hoist and ... (more)

Utah SD40's 9009, 9001, 9005 and MPI SD45 9006 have just departed the Utah Railway yard at Martin Westbound and are about to join the SP ex-RG main line over Soldier Summit with a loaded coal trai... (more)

An eastbound approaches Roanoke with an SD40, GP38, SF30C, C32-8 consist.