A little er, "convincing" to the employee resulted in the previously front coupled kodachrome to magically become un-front coupled. Hell, what else were we going to spend that hard earned money o... (more)

Hard to imagine this as a UP unit, it's like the features on this unit just scream for the scarlet and gray to come back....

Summertime in south Texas finds the normal slight haze in the air meeting one of the hordes of Smithers Lake (HL&P) coal trains that kept the Santa Fe alive. This stretch is on a slight downhill ... (more)

ex MP 8008; MP 1404, then tried out with UP 1356 but it just wasn't enough for the fast pace at Cheyenne, so it sat forlornly near the museum pieces at the roundhouse.

Laying over just a stone's throw from thr locks, this ex BN mauler still looks good.

Shhhhhh...don't tell anyone I was shooting SD40s back then! Even in 1985 the end was in the near future for the original SD40s on the "old" UP. Though the new paint looked nice, they started dro... (more)

After a brutal career of ushering Z trains on the MoPac in blue, then grinding rock trains in blue and then yellow, this tired and faded warrior gets a rest at Centennial, looking ahead to a renum... (more)

Been awhile since I was in FW; I believe this is the ex NKP Chicago-Bellevue line. Can't recall the name of the crossing here with the ex Wabash, but it was a hopping place in 1989.

This is just east of Waterloo on the ex-NYC Main. In all the times I flew by here chasing TVs, never saw it operate though I knew it did.

Southern Railway U23Bs in jackass paint; ohhh, the humanity! Steve Hayworth is probably rolling in his grave....oh well, at least it was still running at this point. By this time the Uboats were... (more)

Back when the merger was in the works, some of us had our doubts and literally fell over ourselves getting the kodachromes when the light was right. In this case though, I also PHSICALLY fell ove... (more)

It was unusual to see these speedsters sitting still anywhere, much less at Milby Street. Paint is yet to begin fading....

After passing an empty KCS grain train at Sheldon, 4107 waits for a signal at the reservoir crossing between Sheldon and Fauna. In the previous 30 minutes to this photo, KCS 4107 met the KCS 4575... (more)

Accelerating out of a 20 mph restriction, 2 KCS belles look good on the old SP Lafayette sub east of Houston

Hey guys, help me out; I believe this belongs to FINA on the PTRA in Houston. It was on the old south cab track in transit to ? when I stumbled upon it.