SP's PRGVR 'Elberta Turn' meets UP's CSRLA (Sharp, UT - Los Angeles, CA) export coal train at the Payson trestle in southern Utah County. The UP train had stopped briefly for a red signal at CP C7... (more)

December 22 Frostbite Flashback. In December 1989 a good friend and I booked a rountrip ticket on the Canadian between Winnipeg and Calgary to experience the train on its historic CP routing (it w... (more)

FP-45 #103 and 3 "Kodachrome" units bring a hotshot "Q" train (they used to call them "Quality trains" -- pigs only) symboled EPKC -- moving from El Paso to Kansas City via Raton Pass and La Junt... (more)

A section crew struggles to clear a switch during a blizzard with near white-out conditions.

A classic "hotbox" on a loaded ore car that was caught by a detector. The train is stopped and the crew will place this quad on the set-out track near the Saginaw depot. Journal oil fires are just... (more)

Unseasonably warm temperatures that Friday morning created a fog bank over Southeast Michigan. DT&I 204 pulls a string of cars from Flat Rock to Ford's River Rouge Plant in Dearborn. Concrete arch... (more)

On December 3, 1990, Chicago and North Western’s PRGBA (Proviso Yard to Green Bay freight) has finished making a setout at Butler Yard. Snow is coming down hard, and is starting to cover the rai... (more)

The belch that made Montreal famous! Or was that Schenectady? Expanding its carbon footprint, a BCRail northward freight gets underway at the north end of Squamish yard after some minor switchin... (more)

The northbound Nakusp wayfreight aboard barge and tug Iris G docks at Rosebery on Slocan Lake where it will unload and continue on the isolated Kaslo branch to Nakusp.

In 1993, the Ontario Northland expanded its operations when it took over a portion of the Canadian National’s former Canadian Northern main line from Cochrane west to Hearst and Calstock, Ontari... (more)

Local headed west towards Atlanta.

Tom Golden photo.

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An eastbound Chicago and North Western freight going through Sussex, Wisconsin, on May 24, 1986, had a car of lumber on fire. They stopped and cut the car from both parts of the... (more)

At the fork in the ATSF mainline where one leads to Topeka and the other to Ottawa, two trains collided and sideswiped between Christmas and New Years Day 1967. Soap powder anyone... it really ... (more)

Santa Fe #76, the eastbound CALIFORNIA SPECIAL makes a station stop at Lubbock, Texas, on a cold February 20, 1964. The train ran between a connection with the SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF at Clovis, New M... (more)