The I&O engineer aboard the LTEX 2400 exchanges waves with our daughter Naomi at the former B&O train station in Loveland, Ohio as it cruises through town leading a loaded Melvin Stone Train.

An I&O Railway stone train traverses the former C&O/Hocking Valley Railway line to Logan, OH during a thunderstorm.

This former Twin Branch Coal GP18, now owned by Great Lakes Leasing is seen at the new transload facility at 59th 1/2 St a few miles east of Hartford, MI.

Two of FEC's stylish horses "Little Champs" as called by fans await with unit train 335 at the massive Cemex plant. FEC 335 / 336 typically run overnight to and from the mine in Miami.

UP's Robertson rock train heads downgrade at El Casco.

FEC K Branch local 932 has come off the branch and now works the yard alongside the 206 waiting to head north. Storms rage in the distance creating a dramatic sky.

Under a stormy sky, FEC 206 picks up a motor at Ft. Pierce Yard before meeting 105 and then heading northward.

206 and 804 shove down the hill on the "Lower Switchback" on the Montpelier and Barre division of the Washington County Railroad. This line provides some of the most challenging operatio... (more)

A Buffalo & Pittsburgh stone extra rolls down grade as it rounds the bend at Fritz Road south of Rasselas, Pennsylvania behind a GP38-2 and trio of SD60's on a spring morning.

UP 7238 leads the Cabazon rock train downgrade at El Casco.

With the construction season well under way, the small Milford-Bennington Railroad comes back to life. Normally dormant in Winter, the sole purpose of this little railroad is run stone from a quar... (more)

In August 1980, we ran across this Bicentennial GE 44-tonner at a quarry in Bellevue, Ohio. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo.

Re 620 # 015 (Re 6/6 # 11615) "Kloten" is pulling the loaded HOLCIM gravel train 67481 from Hüntwangen-Wil via Bülach-Winterthur to Bürglen TG, between Winterthur and Oberwinterthur.

On a dull spring morning, Norfolk Southern local train K90 pulls loads of crushed gravel down the Calverton-Warrenton branch in Calverton, Virginia.

On a dull spring morning, Norfolk Southern local train K90 pulls loads of crushed gravel down the Calverton-Warrenton branch in Calverton, Virginia.