Santa Fe gathered all five of its Centennial-painted SD45-2's together for a group photo at Barstow, Calif. on Dec. 21, 1976. This portrait was taken from the yard's "High Tower." One of these... (more)

What do you do when your employer sends everyone home in the middle of a snowstorm? . . . you go out in it! On the snowy afternoon of January 25, 1990, a Soo Line westbound dashes through the snow... (more)

Heading for Duluth
A short Soo Line transfer freight approaches Grassy Point Drawbridge at Superior, Wisconsin, on October 19, 1985. Either the conductor is really cold, or the dampers ... (more)

Same color! A late-1940s Ford pickup encounters NP veteran GP7 switching the Yakima Local at a sawmill in Ronald. Note tailings pile at right, a reminder of coal mines that powered NP steam locomo... (more)

A set of SP F-7 units, with 6284 on the point, leads a westbound hotshot at Wheatland, Calif. en route to Roseville Yard. An eastbound, headed for Oregon, waits in the clear on March 17, 1964. ... (more)

Everyone on RP seems to enjoy the ghoulish shots of derailments, so here's an April Fool's Day view of one from 1972. The photographer is the late Joe Morton, a Cincinnati Division engineer on L&N... (more)

On a perfect winter morning in the Wasatch, a Rio Grande manifest climbs east through Spanish Fork Canyon at Rio.

Elk River Coal & Lumber shay #19 has five loads of logs en route from the lumber camp to Avoco, W. Va. on Nov. 24, 1961. They didn't build bridges, they just forded the creeks. A watchman ri... (more)

A pair of switch crews utilizing GP10s work ICG's main Mobile yard. That's Telegraph Road in the background, with the Southern yard to the left, and the Frisco/BN to the right.

Smoke 'em if you got 'em
The southbound Santa Fe Q-Train leaves Greenland, Colorado, on July 10, 1989. The lead F45 is coughing up smoke as the train heads for Palmer Lake on Coloradoâ€... (more)

Even though thirsty steam engines vanished from the mainline many years before, Rio Grande's Mill Fork water tank endures yet another harsh winter in Utah's Spanish Fork Canyon. Verne Jeffers Phot... (more)

Early on the morning of November 29, 1968, two freight trains collided head on just south of Hale Center, Texas, on the Plainview District. As a result, the 213L broke completely in half just behi... (more)

Three westbound freights line up nicely for servicing at the west end of Clovis Yard. The photo was taken from the Hull Street overpass, which has since been replaced by a new structure.

A westbound Milwaukee Road hotshot rumbles underneath the Chicago and North Western bridge at Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, on April 28, 1985.

Roberto Verascal fuels an EMD at SP's "Cape Canaveral" engine facility.