The Reading & Northern Tamaqua Local has just backed eight loads of anthracite onto the main from the last remaining segment of the Lehigh & New England main line, which is reached via the connect... (more)

A new Chessie System SD50 sits outside the Barr Yard locomotive shop awaiting its first revenue move. Tom Golden photo.

A "Z" train aproaches Missouri Valley shortly after the second main track was added after the C&NW was acquired by Union Pacific.

Whose railroad is it anyways? CNW 7008 leads a SP stack train thru Beverly, Iowa late in the evening of July 29th, 1993. The yard switcher watches the passage of this train that is detouring off t... (more)

Two Union Pacific taconite ore trains meet at the siding at Little Lake, Michigan, on January 19, 1997. UP operated this former C&NW ore route only a short time before Wisconsin Central, and event... (more)

On August 28th, National Railway Equipment announced a consolidation plan that would close all operations at their Silvis and Dixmoor facilities in Illinois, as well as the facility in Milwaukee, ... (more)

Chicago & North Western’s Proviso to Itasca freight makes a pick up at Butler Yard in a Wisconsin snowstorm on January 10, 1993. After merging into the Union Pacific, the long-standing C&NW yard... (more)

After getting word the B&P through train was coming south, my buddy and I decided to chase the train south to the Mt. Jewett area. Doing the honors of leading the train was BPRR SD50 number 5019. ... (more)

Former Southern 6509, rolls southbound with a TOFC train just out of Pomona Yard in Greensboro.

Buffalo and Pittsburgh train RIBT rolls into Butler with 119 cars from Riker.

A pair of Union Pacific EMD SD50s power a southbound taconite ore train over the Escanaba River Bridge at North Escanaba, Michigan, on January 18, 1997. This Pratt through truss bridge was built i... (more)

RBMN 5033, formally LGSRY 426, leads SBPI through Old Forge in the afternoon sun. As of August of 2020, the ex-UP SD50's on the Reading and Northern have been put up for sale, with a few already s... (more)