After a prolonged stint in storage, Rio Grande returned its SD45's to service with the Southern Pacific's reopening of its Modoc Line in late 1988, initially concentrating the reactivated locomoti... (more)

Looking for a ride back to Ogden, Rio Grande SD45 5339 sits on the Rio Grande-Southern Pacific interchange track on a winter's night.

A loaded ore train from the Minorca taconite plant in Minnesota heads for Escanaba behind a pair of WC SD45s.

A pair of SD45s continue to earn their keep on the DMVW. On this day they were pulling a grain shuttle train from Oakes to Hankinson to be handed off to the CP. With relatively warm temperatures... (more)

WC 7511 and 2061 pass through a Chilly Trout Lake on an sunny early January afternoon with the Tilden empties.

SORE-3 slows for a meet just ahead at Little Lake. Power is 6507 and 6656 on this bright February afternoon.

I spent a week in the Pacific Northwest in the summer of 1979 with one goal...get a few decent shots of the BN C636 fleet in action before it was to late. No such luck, the weather was fickle at b... (more)

WC 7513 heads west at Ishpeming with rock loads in the spring of 2002. Notice the signals have been deactivated and turned away from the track on this once busy section of joint LS&I/WC/CNW line.

A pair of WC SD45s move a train of red (natural) iron ore south towards Chicago. The ore was headed for the Gary Works via the EJ&E.

SP daylight unit 7399 east is stopped at the summit of Cajon Pass at Hiland. A dead head crew is walking back to climb aboard the 2nd unit for the trip down Cajon Pass to the West Colton yard.

Another winter is slowly coming to an end as WC 6595 and 6604 lead ore loads to Escanaba under a threatening sky near Brampton.

Anyone else have a picture of a train with a Cobra attack helicopter? A DMVW train rolls by a park in Lidgerwood, North Dakota, headed to Hankinson to be handed off to the CP.

A westbound Santa Fe train was descending Cajon Pass west of Cajon station. This was the power off the jointly operated DRGW UP Santa Fe Utah to Kaiser Steel in Fontana, CA coal train, it was norm... (more)

MRL 328, an SD45 heads a "Jimbo" work train towards Thompson Falls to drop off new ties and retrieve old ones. The train will tie up at Thompson Falls and head west to Kootenai, ID on September 21... (more)

A pair of SD45s and an SD40-2 muscle a loaded ore train south through St. Paul on a hazy summer day.