Charter southbound from East Ely to Keystone.

No. 10 headed toward Tuolumne with one of the last trains of logs. In a few days the railroad would routinely shut down for the winter, but never reopen. This is another old Anscochrome slide th... (more)

View from the fireman's seat on a GG-1. I bummed a cab ride on a freight from Lancaster to Camden. Got the following location backchannel: "You're eastbound approaching Paoli, PA on No.2 track, ... (more)

Grotty weather, handsome train.

Westbound on the Raton Line. I believe this is the DENBAR (Denver to Barstow) train that at one time was about the only daylight freight movement you could count on.

The traditional PRR position light signals show all stop at North Philly. The dwarf position light signals look like cats eyes staring out of the dark.

The 8444 pulled a special from Portland through the Deschutes Canyon to Bend and return (two days). UP 6085 helped. UP has trackage rights on this line. Note the two tone gray paint job on the ... (more)

Pole lines used to get in the way of good train pix. Now that they are fast disappearing it's nice to find one reasonably intact. Not to mention the blades.

Among my oldest slides, this Anscochrome was faded but brought back to some semblance of life by Photoshop. A Santa Fe tug and barge pick up the Santa Fe's share of the NWP's interchange traffic ... (more)

A two engine train heads timetable north from Guatemala City toward Rancho and Puerto Barrios. The railroad has been nationalized, but the tenders of both engines are still lettered FIdeCA for th... (more)

Ore train between Bingham Canyon Mine and concentrators at Garfield.

Putting the power onto an eastbound passenger at Moncton station. Note the fusee that had been used to melt the ice jambing the knuckle. A picture like this makes me appreciate that I did my rai... (more)

SP 2472 and 4449 doubleheaded a special from Sacramento to Oakland.

Northbound BNSF pig train with matched warbonnets loops the loop while blue and yellow helpers wait in the siding. No BN green yet. And in another six months this will the UP Tehachapi Loop.

Fegua freight heading uphill from Rancho to Guatemala City. The GE diesels have just been delivered. They are 900 h.p B-B units with Cat prime movers and built under license in Spain. Contrast n... (more)