Soon after the UP-SP merger, many former D&RGW SD40T-2s returned to home rails. Here a matched quad of EMD 'tunnel motors' lead a 44 car RODVM (Roper, UT - Denver, CO) through Price Canyon at the ... (more)

A work extra has just gotten in the clear to allow MoPac's "Southerner" Train 8 to continue its rush toward St. Louis.

On a cold winter's night at Union Pacific's Provo Yard, an EMD TR5 'cow and calf' and a GP20 await a call to duty with a fresh layer of snow on the ground.

On its maiden eastbound voyage, Santa Fe GP60M No. 100 is on the point of the 2-891 as it meets a westbound manifest at Daggett, CA.

A worker at the LMIT fuels Dash 9 No. 697.

Westbound NS Gulf Turn passing through Willow Springs, NC in this Summer 1972 scene behind a single GP18.

A westbound Rio Grande freight passes the site of Keeldar siding on the eastern approach to Tennessee Pass, Colorado, on May 24, 1991. The Continental Divide is in the background and still has an ... (more)

The caboose of a northbound C&NW freight gets a flyover from a United Airlines 747 landing at O’Hare International Airport at Bryn Mawr, Illinois, in August 1984.

Taken in the East Altoona pit during the steam-diesel transition era with a PRR Police escort. The Alco diesels were classified RSD-7 on the Pennsy.

At the time, I couldn't imagine why this Rio Grande freight had 11 engines on the point . . . I was just glad I got to see it! . . . and to hear it, too! D&RGW 3095 rolls east, upgrade through Spa... (more)

Engineer waits for the brakeman to finish the brake line connection before heading north.

Aboard Amtrak No. 8 from the cab of F40PH No. 357 on November 9, 1992 just east of Rio and about 14.5 miles east of Portage, Wisconsin, we pass the scene of a derailment. I don’t remember the de... (more)

Beacon in the night
Duplainville tower on a pleasant, but cool evening in March 1984. Tower operator Tom Kidd has his 8-pack of Diet Pepsi's cooling outside on the railing. He informs u... (more)

A Conrail coal train heads downgrade through Horseshoe Curve west of Altoona, Pennsylvania, on the bright autumn morning of October 23, 1988. Powering the train are two SD40s.