The Union Pacific Hinkle Special accelerates eastbound at The Dalles, Oregon along the Columbia River. The train is heading dignitaries to a grand opening celebration of UP's new hump operation at... (more)

Late afternoon sun catches GN 556, an SD7 and GN 166, an SW7 at the Minneapolis engine shed and roundhouse about 90 days before the BN merger.

A retired Northern Pacific 40 ft. combo door boxcar serves as a storage shed on a farm/ranch near Glendive, MT. The car obviously was damaged in a derailment at some point, and I would expect acqu... (more)

CNW 219 leads a mixture of Fs into Cedar Lake Yard at Minneapolis, MN with a freight from Marshalltown, IA. This train operated on the former Minneapolis & St. Louis mainline and F units and older... (more)

BN 702, an F3A, was the oldest cab unit still operating on BN in August 1979. Still retaining its 3 porthole side window, the unit had an upgraded GP style twin sealed beam headlight mounted on th... (more)

After walking nearly half a mile to set up for a westbound shot along the Harrison River at Lake Errock it was a bit of a surprise when we heard the sound of EMDs coming from behind us. Luckily we... (more)

Rock Island GP40 384 along with a GP7 and U25B idle between assignments at their Twin Cities facility located at Inver Grove south of St. Paul. The yellow nose paint was an influence of Union Paci... (more)

A BNSF grain train loaded with corn from St. Cloud, MN to Kalama, WA derailed in front of one of the most photographed barns in rail photography about 6 AM May 1, 2017. 23 cars left the tracks wit... (more)

Model railroaders in HO and N scale have had the opportunity to purchase CNW 1280 and 1281 offered by Life-Like Products. This view shows the Route of the 400 side of the hoods. These were two of ... (more)

BN 9500 leads 2 more SD60MACs on a Soo Line train headed north toward La Crescent, MN having just passed through Bellevue, IA. BN had EMD demos numbered BN 9500-9503 and testing of these units led... (more)

UP 951 bends around the curve at Hilgard, OR with the OTS (Old Timers' Special) just out of La Grande, en route to Pendleton and Portland. SD40 3113 is on an eastbound freight slowly heading east ... (more)

BN RS-11 no. 4182, another RS-11 still in NP paint, and a former SP&S C424 are parked at BN's Hoyt St. Yard in downtown Portland, OR between assignments. Since SP&S was the one Alco heavy railroad... (more)

British Columbia Railway's Caribou Dayliner head north near Whistler, BC on a sunny August day in 1985. The short consist indicates that is going only as far as Lillouett, BC on this day. Three da... (more)

Under lock down next to the Old Montana Prison Museum, but not under catenary, Milwaukee Road E70 is on display nicely restored in February 1995. 20 Little Joes were built in 1946 for export to th... (more)

The morning Cascadian train to Vancouver, BC from Seattle has just pulled out of Edmonds station. During this time the "blue" train consist was mixed into the Amtrak Cascades service bet... (more)