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)

Under the imposing coaling tower at Centralia, Illinois, on a September 1984 night, Illinois Central locomotives idle the evening away. Paducah-rebuild IC GP10 No. 8193 stands one track over from ... (more)

Milwaukee Road's contribution to the bicentennial shows off signs of its former red, white, and blue scheme. Tom Bowers photo.

A slide I traded for years ago. BN 4244 leads three WP GE's on a BN runthrough in April of 1971. The photographers name is illegible.

Union Pacific's LUF51 local enters the Provo Subdivision main while Rio Grande's hot DVROT glides by at Lakota Junction. The track at upper left and upper right once crossed the D&RGW at grade unt... (more)

A pair of Sacramento rebuilt SD45T-2Rs lead the OAMFT east approaching Sutro on July 11, 1990. The SSW 6890 was built the SSW 9277 by EMD in Feb. 1973.

MILW Little Joe electric E73 catches some ZZZZs in the Deer Lodge roundhouse on Aug. 4, 1973. Ordered and built for Russia, but never delivered because of tensions, the streamlined GE electrics ... (more)

Four leased Oakway SD60s lead a southbound BN coal train out of Pueblo, Colo. at Pueblo Jct. where main lines go four directions. SD60 9057 is entering the southward main track to Trinidad; the... (more)

Rio Grande's Helper Local makes a switch move on the former Provo Canyon Branch lead at 6th South and 2nd West in Provo. Pretend for a minute that the 'Heber Creeper' route from Provo Yard was nev... (more)

While searching for a suitable location to photograph the pending Rio Grande Zephyr, we spotted the Provo Switcher milling about in the former Salt Lake and Utah Railroad interchange yard called '... (more)

Big time railroading! SP B39-8 #8034 pounds through the super-elevated curves at Hinda while lower-priority Cotton Belt GP60 #9668 waits on the westbound main. 9668 will move back to the eastbound... (more)

Chicago-bound train 841 behind SF30C 9534 roars out the east end of Clovis Yard on Christmas Eve 1986 past train 805 on the south main behind GP20 3017. At Texico, a few miles ahead, the 841 will ... (more)

Santa Fe Second #18, the EL CAPITAN, behind FP45s 107-106 slows for a station stop at Williams Junction on December 22, 1968. Note the infrared switch heaters above the train. These were used at s... (more)

Extra 242C East crosses the Fort Worth & Denver as it leaves Lubbock with mixed freight on April 11, 1964. The train is pictured coming off the north main onto single track. The FW&D line ran from... (more)

A freezing fog covers the grass and brush around Adamana at noon on December 27, 1986. Train 2-338, a main line local, has just finished switching a LPG storage facility and is now en route to Win... (more)