Santa Fe’s Train 2 San Francisco Chief now has a green signal to proceed at Woodford, Calif. after a 2-unit set of SP helpers got in the clear, headed back to Bakersfield. Soon the Chief will ... (more)

Southern Pacific RSD-12 and RS-32 engines switch the north end of the OUR&D Yard in Ogden on Sept. 25, 1976. A lot has changed at this location in the past 39 years.

BC Rail's Caribou Dayliner appears to be skirting the end of the Earth as it hugs the shoreline along Howe Sound north of Vancouver, BC. The train is led by a track inspector in a speeder to ensur... (more)

A Soo Line train using trackage rights on the Milwaukee Road derailed during its nightly trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in April 1984. I don’t recall the details, but I seem to remember that the ... (more)

A BC Rail freight winds its way north between Pemberton and Lillouett, BC rolling along the shoreline of Gates Lake. This train is mostly composed of empty forest products cars returning to northe... (more)

A little switcher moves gondolas of scrap around a Republic Steel plant in Canton, OH

Delaware & Hudson blue paint sure didn't last on this former Lehigh Valley unit.

CN SW1200RS 1361 is heading back into Hamilton after coming out to Bayview to turn some piggyback trailers on the wye.

Flying white flags, a grimy CP Rail M636 and C630 duo lead a westbound over the frozen Ottawa River at Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec. The tracks in the foreground are the parallel CN mainline. ... (more)

Santa Fe F7 229C leads a westbound freight (geographically southeast) around the curves in hill and dale country of central Texas at Rogers, Jan. 30, 1971.

A Santa Fe F passenger unit reduced to freight service pauses with a northbound at Bellville, Texas to swap crews just after 2:00 a.m. on July 19, 1971.

Two Santa Fe F-7s and a Geep get a bath at Kansas City’s Argentine Yard on a warm July 24, 1966.

DT&I GP38 1776, and Conrail SD40-2 6428 wait to leave the DT&I yard at Flat Rock, while DT&I 212 switches cars at Flat Rock, MI. 11-24-1979

DMIR SD9 170 and SD18 183 bask in summer evening warmth outside Missabe's Proctor diesel shop. Soon the units will be back at work either switching ore jennies or hauling long ore drag between the... (more)

The presence of a company photographer, officials, and other supernumeraries tells us this is no ordinary train parked at Tenneco north of Denver. In mid-June, 1965, UP has dispatched a special fr... (more)