Amtrak E units gather with a couple BN E9Ms at the Zephyr Pit located south of Union Station. At this time BN handled much of Amtrak's engine servicing in Chicago. Amtrak units were still using st... (more)

MILW 60A, an FP7 built as 90A in June 1950, mates with an F7A and moves away from the MILW engine terminal at Pig's Eye Yard, St. Paul. After a career of handling Hiawatha's and other MILW passeng... (more)

Light snow falls on BNSF Warbonnet 724 (Dash9) as it waits for service in the engine facility in Denver, Colorado.

The Oneida & Western "Green Train" passes through Atlanta with four matching SD40-2's built to L&N specs. Photo by Richard Thomason.

Having been probably switched in at Montreal (the morning 33 train, wich in Ottawa would turn on to 26, was a conventional LRC set), a fairly new Siemens Charger set with cab car 2308 leading, is ... (more)

CN 305 has a Dash 9 on the point, coming off the Saint-Hyacinthe sub and through Pointe-Saint-Charles yard, just after crossin the Saint-Lawrence on the Victoria bridge, visible in the far backgro... (more)

As Amtrak train 56, the Washington DC to Saint Albans, Vermont Vermonter, pauses for its electric locomotive (and one coach) to be removed (AMTK ACS-63 626, on the right) and swapped for a ... (more)

The Greatness of Essex, Montana. Two helper sets idling away waiting for their next job. Then some local power with white face BN 2889 in the background.

Intermodal switchers working the BNSF ramps.

BN 1726 has arrived in Butte with its freight after crossing Homestake Pass and Bozeman Hill having originated in Livingston. A UP A-B-B-A set consisting of an SD40, two GP30Bs and a GP30 sit near... (more)

BN 1726 leads a quartet of GP9/18s waiting for the North Coast Hiawatha to leave Livingston for Butte which it will follow with the daily freight. All units were NP, the 4th, BN 1998 was a GP18. T... (more)

A trio of BNSF engines sorting a train at the Terminal Railroad yard.

On a bleak winter-like day, an empty coal train off the MKT heads east on the former Frisco main line after skirting Frisco’s abandoned Rosedale Yard, and is now approaching the Katy’s Glen Pa... (more)

Partly refurbished material of one and a half 2-8-2 steamlocomotives type 141 R, built in Canada 1946/1947 for the french railway SNCF, privately owned and for sale, in Winterthur freight yard. Fr... (more)

BN 6009, an SD7, shares the Belknap Yard engine facilities with for more SD7s and SD9s was well as other EMD power between assignments they day after Christmas 1975. Located next to downtown Super... (more)