MILW 97C, a venerable FP7 leads a quartet of vintage EMD power on a transfer run into CNW's Hoffman Avenue Yard adjacent to Milwaukee's Pigs Eye Yard in St. Paul, MN. Behind the train is Dayton Bl... (more)

MILW 24 heads up a quartet of SD40-2s as its westbound extra gets underway at Kittitas, WA after stopping to cut out helpers, viewable in the distance. The grade west of Beverly climbing out of th... (more)

A quartet of TH&B GP7s idle under the old coaling tower along side CP SW 1200RS switchers at Hamilton, ON on May 24, 1981.

CP Rail MLW S2 7094 and S4 7117 have ring side seats as S4 7118 brings the Canadian, featuring Laurentide Park on the rear, around the balloon track at CP's Vancouver coach yard on August 6, 1978.... (more)

WM 7595 sits at Chessie System's Cumberland Shops along with BO 4041, a GP40. The unit is in need of work, and in the fall of 1981 the economy was such that it was likely to sit here for awhile. M... (more)

BN 6805 leads two more SD40-2s and an F45 around the bend east of Livingston on a beautiful July morning. Next stop Laurel. BN would own this route for three more years, and the F45 would be gone ... (more)

Montreal Locomotive Works M630, CP 4563 leads an SD40-2 on an empty coal train headed to North Bend, BC along the Fraser River north of Yale. CP's transcontinental mainline looks pretty insignific... (more)

Canadian Pacific was still handling passengers between Esquimalt, near Victoria, and Nanaimo, BC on Vancouver Island when I made my first visit in May 1975. I only had time to capture this one pho... (more)

A northbound UP freight rolls along Puget Sound at Steilacoom, Wash. nearing Tacoma, with a final destination of Seattle. The power shows three variations of graphics on the basic UP scheme of the... (more)

Not often does one get a clear rear view of GN's Big Sky Blue scheme on an SDP45. BN 9863 shows off the simple wrap around striping and the rather plain rear nose that housed the steam generator w... (more)

A BNSF manifest freight rolls west exiting Abo Canyon with a quartet of BN power none of which had been renumbered at this time. The Cascade green contrasts nicely with the New Mexico desert.

Firsco Baldwin no. 234, a VO-1000, four stack version, rolls a load of Dodge Rams and some tank cars past a tower labeled "Old Union Depot Interlocking" in Kansas City, MO in March 1972.... (more)

MILW 908, a venerable Baldwin VO-1000 rests outside the Pig's Eye Yard roundhouse on a chilly January 1975 morning. Milwaukee had a number of Baldwins still in service in the Twin cities area at t... (more)

The Canadian holds the siding just east of Kicking Horse Pass waiting for a westbound freight. Today's train is powered by an FP7/FP9 combination, ample power for the seven car winter-sized consis... (more)

An eastbound BN manifest heads out of Northtown Yard a year after the BN merger with a trio of SD45s in three color schemes, and a couple stock cars on the front of the train. BN 6468 was delivere... (more)