It seems that there is a railroader in love whose girlfriend he nicknames « Minou ». There is also a dirty Sybic that carries a different paint scheme on each end.

Mittal Steel SC15A 148 switches the East Chicago mill.

The most notable portion of the 1984 World’s Fair Daylight’s leg that brought it to Los Angeles was its assault over Tehachapi. Less remarked is that it did not take the Palmdale Cutoff ove... (more)

After coming from Grapevine, the ex-Santa Fe geep pushes the train out of the Fort Worth Stockyards before heading south to the 8th avenue yard.

We're at a set of crossovers on the Norfolk and Western mainline, probably west of Roanoke. High short hood C628 1115 leads four other assorted units on an eastbound manifest.

Soo Line 1548 (ex-Milwaukee Road) switches Jones Island in Milwaukee, WI in January of 1993. Several boats are in the harbor for winter lay-up, including the Arthur Anderson, the boat that followe... (more)

”I’ll Catch Him – You Have a Schedule to Keep!”

A young man is climbing down from the deck of Nickel Plate 765 after the ride of a lifetime. While it may appear that he could be de... (more)

After it stopped hauling logs, Oregon, California & Eastern spent a few months switching out an on-line oil distributor. When a spur was built to connect this plant with Burlington Northern, OC&E ... (more)

BNSF smurf GP38-2 2042 switches a industry next to GM yard.

A baretable train led by a GP38-2/GP39-3 duo, heads east toward Memphis across the Frisco Bridge over the Mississippi River. The billboard is there for the benefit of drivers on the adjacent I-55... (more)

Since this year SNCF has new freight cars for transportation of sheet metal coils.

Union Pacific EMD SDP35's numbered 1400-1409. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer listed on slide.

A June 1984 view from Illinois Highway 251 overpass sees an eastbound Milwaukee Road freight departing Davis Junction led by three EMD SD40-2s.

Union Pacific’s unique rail detector car DC-3 inspects UP’s Kearney Subdivision main line in July 1981. This car was originally built in 1928 as a Brill Model 350 motor car for Detroit & Mackinac ... (more)