Pulled by a FT-FT-geep-geep-FT-FT set, a Northern Pacific freight heads westbound into Puyallup, WA, summer 1962. We were on our way to Seattle World's Fair. This is on NP main line east of Tacoma... (more)

The rear end helper on 671 shoves up, while further up the line the head end pulls like mad to get the loaded potash train up the hill. It's not often everything lines up like this!

One of earliest pictures I took - Challenger 3947 at an active coaling tower (notice guys on top of both boiler and tender) in either Sidney Neb, or Lodgepole NE, in NE Panhandle - in early fall o... (more)

A switcher places 3 covered wagons and one geep on the ready track at Collinwood for their last trip west to the scrapper. The 1792 is the renumbered 1648, the only F to get the blue paint.

It wasn't often that you could photograph the rear of an EMD SDP35, but the opportunity presented itself on this day in January 1967. The yard crew at Raleigh is in charge of the road power for p... (more)

A pair of Tennessee Railroad Alcos in Onedia, May 1973.

A small mixed train, known locally as the Virginia Creeper, gets an early start on the day and makes it's way through Fairview one cold blistery Winter's day. A scene reminiscent of her days in Vi... (more)

Seaboard Air Line No. 8, The Sunland, has already reached 79 mph leaving Raleigh, NC approaching New Hope Church Rd. Three E units handle the train today, led by E7 3018, followed by Seaboard's o... (more)

In a view that the great O. Winston Link saw on a regular basis on the Abingdon Branch, N&W 382 passes through a snow bank as big as the engine as the engineer leans out the window checking the cl... (more)

In a classic scene that can't be replicated today, the helper set out of Essex with F9A 810 (NP 7002D), F9B 809 (NP 7002C) and GP9 1765 (GN 692) has uncoupled from a heavy eastbound manifest they ... (more)

The first train through the teeth of the 2010 blizzard makes easy work of the 2 ft of snow. The HHP was whistling as they blasted through at near 100 mph. Incredible.

Santa Fe 315, with a yellow variation of the famous "Warbonnet" paint scheme, leads three more F7 B units on Amtrak's Texas Chief. Union Station would close and the remaining Amtrak traffic would... (more)

QNSL 425 basks in the low winter sun outside of the Sept-Îles shops.

Here comes the next archive picture from Timken. The text on the photo says the following: “One of the eight Timken Olympian trains on the Milwaukee Road arriving in Chicago after a 70 hour run ... (more)

Classic Southern Pacific! SP F7A 6325 and F7B 8219 (both November 1950 graduates of the EMD La Grange, IL, factory) sit with a caboose at the station in Chatsworth, California, on the SP's Coast ... (more)