Three SD40-2s give a taste of the Union Pacific of days gone by as they cruise out of Kearney down the modern three track mainline of the UP of today.

The lead GE spews exhaust as it works hard up Arlington Hill with a westbound empty coal train not long after sunrise.

At 40 years old, the #406 has already been on Missabe property for 16 years!

Another view of UP Turbine 3, at Cheyenne, Wy on May 11, 1968. Do not ask me why the coupler is freshly painted white --- I do not know. But I could suspect the locomotive or the tightlock ... (more)

Union Pacific's Southern Pacific Heritage SD70ACe #1996 leads Long Beach,CA - Atlanta,GA intermodal train 22Z on the west end of Tallapoosa.

Empty oil cans race up the Mississippi River Valley before dawn on BNSF rails.

RA 5005 runs underneath the US Steel and Air Liquide pipe-bridges on the N&NW spur.

66156 with non standard small numbers on this side only, crosses the causeway at the pretty village of Golant, near journeys end at Golant.

this diesel "tractor" is shunting cars in a non-electrified siding behind the station of Meilen to the ramp of MIDOR AG biscuit and ice-cream factory

A Union Pacific coal train traverses Little Gore Canyon west of Azure, Colorado, on November 7, 2012. The train is passing through short 63-foot Tunnel 40 and approaching Tunnel 39, while the midd... (more)

The 70th annual running of the Clinchfield Santa Train creeps across massive Copper Creek trestle situated just South of Clinchport, VA a balmy November evening along this highly scenic section of... (more)

TEM18 locomotive transports cars with ore from Kirov mines, along Khibinsky Mountains... Khibiny is one of the two main mountain ranges of the Kola Peninsula in Russia, within the Arctic Circle. T... (more)

With their work complete at Biffco Industries, a pair of buttheads head back to Boyles as lite power on a clear November morning.

A rare steam powered double header wraps up the season for revenue steam powered freight trains, seen here with 8 cars in tow. CN #89 leads N&W #475 in this dark scene just before the sun broke t... (more)