a Gator and an SD24 at Amarillo in this shot from my collection. Photographers name is illegible.

A slide I traded for years ago. BN 4244 leads three WP GE's on a BN runthrough in April of 1971. The photographers name is illegible.

The hay is ready to be mowed as Soo 212A,742,214A head 911 and 90 cars west. The thing that really sticks in my mind about Soo F's was that they ALWAYS seemed to be leading trains through my homet... (more)

BN 4363,4182 rest outside the Wishram enginehouse waiting for a tardy #139 to show up so they can be added to the consist for the inside gateway run up the Deschutes River Canyon to the connection... (more)

CP 8428 along with a GP35 and C424 rest at the CPR roundhouse in Sault Ste. Marie after arriving with train 911. The GP35 had lead on the way in and the two lo nose units had already been cut off ... (more)

UP 6904, RI 349,347,351,279 head east out of North Platte with 109 cars at 1:40PM. The Rock was on it's last legs at the time but still rated a run through job with UP out of Council Bluffs. The b... (more)

CN 2043, 2308, 7033 blast out of Capreol right at sunset on train 336. The CP seemed to have many more Alco/MLW photographic opportunities in the Sudbury area than the CN. The CN MLW's would make ... (more)

Milw 261 leads a BNSF employee special westbound near Glendive. The big 4-8-4 put on quite a show on this clear summer morning.

Due to the poor condition of the E&LS line between Channing and Escanaba, the E&LS used trackage rights over the WC from Pembine to North Escanaba. This use to be a tri-weekly operation so catchin... (more)

Soo Baldwin 361 clanks across the NP diamonds at Detroit Lakes in this slide from my collection. The train order mast with orders hung out, along with the clean Baldwin and the manned tower give a... (more)

In this photo from my collection BN 4193 leads two more ex NP RS-11"s and a SP&S FA on a westbound manifest at Pasco.

BN 6630, 6426 rest in front of the Ex NP station in Livingston waiting for a westbound freight to arrive. Soon they will be pushing it up Bozeman Pass.In what I considered an odd event the next fr... (more)

A normal for BN at the time mid 80's set of power gets a roll on #104 eastbound out of La Crosse. Fuel tenders could be found in all types of service across the system. Here we have FT-44 splicing... (more)

One of only four late model F3's left on the Soo's roster at the time, heads an extremely late train 911 a couple miles west of Trout Lake. It's been over 30 years but I seem to remember that the ... (more)

Getting C&NW C628's making a cloud of trademark Alco smoke in ore service was a little difficult to accomplish. Most engineers were reluctant to really notch them out for fear of ripping a knuckle... (more)