Clinchfield's SD-45 3612 is about to plunge into Speedy Tunnel (one of three in a straight-arrow row) at Mile Post 193.29 on the train's northbound climb up to the crest at Altapass, N.C. No di... (more)

BN 6005 and an NW2, both of GN heritage idle the evening away in this midnight shot taken at the former Great Northern Railway Harrison St. roundhouse. During this time BN was upgrading Northtown ... (more)

Busy Butler Yard
A Chicago and North Western train led by SD45 No. 946 waits for a new crew on the westbound main, as two other trains make setouts/pickups at Butler Yard at Butler, Wis... (more)

A Milwaukee rib side caboose rolls on the the IHB crossing the Santa Fe mainline at McCook. The caboose is pretty weather beaten and also shows signs of impact from things being thrown at it. Now ... (more)

Westbound Penn Central freight train at Bay Junction in West Detroit, Michigan, on October 14, 1973. The large building at the left is General Motors' Cadillac plant. Photograph by more)

From my grandfather, Eugene Diller's, collection. The westbound Zephyr slows for a station stop at Glenwood Springs.

Specially painted kodachrome ATSF 5394, which is sporting white lettering, yellowbonnet ATSF 5400, and kodachrome ATSF 5401 rest in San Bernardino yard. Later in the day, these three locomotives ... (more)

All that remains of Union Pacific SD-24B sits in a Santa Fe gondola along with other locomotive parts. Damaged Santa Fe 5609 and an Amtrak locomotive sit on the track next to the Santa Fe locomot... (more)

On a frosty December 1960 day, a Santa Fe westbound departs Gallup, New Mexico, with six F7 diesels, in an A-B-B-B-B-A configuration led by 232C, on the point. (Frank "Woody" Woodburn photo, Craig... (more)

The EMPIRE BUILDER sits at Minot on a bitter cold February night. The BN dome coach wears Great northern's Big Sky Blue .

On Sept. 10, 1986, the weather just would not improve. When we got up that morning we were greeted with fog and light drizzle. Faced with a day of shooting in the funk, we asked and received per... (more)

I spent a lot of time on trains back in the 70's and 80's, Soo crews in Upper Michigan were a friendly group and a long way from the headquarters in the Twin Cities, so they put up with me pester... (more)

CN 4017 and an FPA4 lead an eastbound VIA train across the Grand River at Paris. The 4017 was one of two GP40s in passenger service - the other being 4016, neither of which were conveyed to VIA. ... (more)

Another very atmospheric photo by the late Kenneth Field showing a local train from Crewe on arrival in Chester General station hauled by class 2P 4-4-0 No 40653.

Curving boxes
Two intermodal trains snake through Bealville, California, on Tehachapi Pass on a hot June 30, 1996.