On April 26, 1972, GP35 3313 shoves Jordan spreader 199232 along the eastward main track between Griffith and Harris, Arizona, on the Kingman Subdivision, later Seligman Sub. Nothing manicures the... (more)

The class unit herself 6900 with different font numbers, the first of 45 Centennials, has left Cheyenne and climbs eastward up Archer Hill, a favorite photo location on the elevated curve.

A Santa Fe westbound manifest smokes it up as it departs Barstow, California, behind GP50 3813 on November 9, 1985. The trailing units include a U36C, an SD45 and an SD45-2.

Southern NW2 #1016 leads a short train northbound on the A&Y line to Sanford || June 1975

Oooops, someone forgot to set the derail and a handbrake on a roundhouse lead track at Santa Fe's La Junta, Colo. roundhouse. F7 247 rolled off into the turntable pit June 1, 1968, and apparentl... (more)

A pair of Rio Grande SD45s have cut off the KUW (Kaiser Unit West) coal train, loaded at Sunnyside, Utah. The four UP units and train will run through the UP wye at Ironton (Provo), Utah and conti... (more)

The crew of Santa Fe 5914 waits patiently in front of the San Bernardino passenger depot as a diesel shop crewman works on the windshield. This is the San Bernardino B yard, taken from the Mt. Ve... (more)

The conductor of a Rio Grande freight offers the photographer a friendly wave as his train heads east through the Green River Desert near Thompson. Afternoon storms are brewing over the La Salle M... (more)

VIA Rail's Train 3, westbound "Super Continental" has ex-CN FP9A 6504 on the point after the train departed Jasper, Alberta and is headed for the Alberta-British Columbia border at Yellowhead Pas... (more)

Soo Line tested the Burlington Northern SD60MACs in 1993. Nos. 9500, 9503 and 9502 lead Soo Line train No. 430 up 2nd street in downtown Bellevue, Iowa, on October 17, 1993.

After making a set-out at Berry, ATSF 5638 West, with two Alco Alligators in its consist, gets underway in throttle 8 to climb up up and over Getz to drop into Kingman and on down to the Calif. bo... (more)

Canadian Pacific's eastbound Train 2 Canadian slips under snowsheds east of Field on it climbs Kicking Horse Pass. Can you bet the railroad is grateful for those showsheds to keep boulders such a... (more)

Chicago and North Western SD40-2 No. 6860 leads a freight at Butler Yard, Wisconsin, on a snowy February 20, 1986. Trailing is a former (still in green) Burlington Northern SD45 and two GP7s.

Was it any crossties or was it the sod that held the gauge on MILW's Winifred branch near Suffolk when the local with eight 40-ft. box cars tenderly negotiated it at 10 mph? Remnants of old "rai... (more)

Santa Fe SD75Ms Nos. 202 and 234 sit in a shop building, waxed and polished for their trip tomorrow on the point of BNSF's Super Bowl Special.