BNSF 6656, BNSF 6657, BNSF 6658, & BNSF 6655 on their maiden trip west. Photographed at 11:43.

Four elephant style ES44C4's on their maiden run battle towards the Continental Divide with Haystack Butte and Mount Taylor providing the backdrop.

Four elephant style ES44C4's on their maiden run race towards Winslow catching last rays of the setting sun.

Brand new Conrail SD60Is No's. 5608 and 5607, along with overhauled SD45-2 No. 6665, had run over light from Altoona and were coupled to the rear of an eastbound coal train at South Fork for the p... (more)

Three recent graduates of the Juniata Locomotives Shop were dropping down the West Slope at Cassandra, PA on March 11, 1995 as an eastbound Trail Van train was climbing upgrade. From what I under... (more)

Conrail finally figured it out, railroad-wise and paint scheme-wise and of course they went away. The sill stripe made the paint job.

The trouble-maker takes the Champion south. Number 950 was the E60 that derailed at speed during trials on the NEC. The NEC might be totally different today if this hadn't happened.

The last SD70M-2 of CN's current order makes it's maiden run west on Prince Rupert bound train Q199.

Less than a year old, PRR 5804 gets readied for departure to Chicago at 11am as seen in this Ansco Color view. PRR was renovating their Pittsburgh terminal at the time of this photo, pardon the w... (more)

Brand-new Budd RDCs 9156 & 9155 sit on display at Bethlehem. The trucks and undercarriage were painted blue which brought to mind the 1937 streamlined G1sas Pacifics that pulled the Budd-built CRU... (more)

Big John Santa Fe was a little late to the SD-40-2 party. Here two smelling of fresh paint escort one of the reasons for the switch. Incidentally the landscape architect failed to show up when t... (more)

Fresh out of GE Erie, two brand new BNSF C44-9W's get their train rolling west out of Buffalo after having just done work at Seneca Yard. This was among the first orders to wear BNSF letters right... (more)

Four brand new SSW GP60s share the fuel rack with three left over Milwaukee switchers patched SOO.

Nearly new Soo 793 leads 772,743,504 and 108 cars of train 912 eastbound near Gould City.