B&OCT L4 0-8-0 777 with a short work train. This locomotive was clean and it looked like it was just shopped. Even the canvas storm curtains were clean. Note the unusual B&OCT name plate just abov... (more)

We're at Illinois Central's Markham yard on Chicago's south side. ICRR 4-8-2 2614 backs to the coaling tower amid furious bell clanging and steam everywhere. She was built in 1943 at the Paducah, ... (more)

177-22 heads west along the calm autumn waters of the Bow River. There's snow on Sulphur Mountain by this time in September, and there was snow earlier on the ground that day. Railroad: Canadian Pacific Railway
Locomotive: GE ES44AC
Location: Banff, Alberta, Canada
Locomotive #: CP 8863
Train ID: CP 177
Photo Date: September 22, 2010

With the temperature hovering around the -30 Celsius mark without the windchill, G802 eases through the 25 MPH permanent slow order at the Brule tunnel.

Freshly painted at the Centralia paint shop CN 2124 is placed on public display at the local Amtrak station. Recently purchased from Union Pacific. Ex. UP 9089. Ex. CNW 8577.

Eastbound Alco FA A-B on Pacific Fruit Express reefer block east of Ogallala, Neb, August 1959.

A BNSF trackage rights train speeds along the southern edge of the Great Salt Lake toward the Salt Lake City area and a transfer from ex-WP to ex-DRGW tracks.

Passing a stand of colorful leaf trees, train 1 is making its way north on a late September morning in 1997. F's 1752 and 1750 are trailed by a couple leased VIA coaches and a rather scrambled up ... (more)

Baldwin EM-1 Yellowstone 2-8-8-4 in Painesville, OH. My dad took this picture on the B&0 Fairport Harbor to Warren branch near the NKP crossing. This line has was abandoned in the early 1980s ... (more)

With a z-train hot on its heels (visible in the distance), a BNSF manifest begins its climb out of the San Joaquin Valley towards the summit at Tehachapi.

NKP 765 performs one last run by before the sun completely sets below the horizon. If you look closely you can see the engineer pulling out on the throttle.

The hogger waits for a hand signal to highball. PRR Class M1a.

The first section of U.P.'s combined CITY OF LOS ANGELES / CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO is on the last lap to Chicago. The B units are missing some of the stainless steel grill. I left for the east that ... (more)

The last day of my week in Chicago was a beautiful Wednesday. Illinois Central's CITY OF NEW ORLEANS passes the coach yards behind A-B E8 units.