A westbound 90-car Santa Fe manifest passes through Abo Canyon, New Mexico at Bridge 4.
Our longest hike into Abo Canyon included the opportunity to deal with several rain showers. Here a westbound Santa Fe 45-car manifest passes through one of them.
Kansas City Southern de Mexico 3488 and a CSX unit are in the process of being scrapped at the Larry's Truck and Electric facility in Lordstown, Ohio The handrails have already been removed. Phot... (more)
The cab of Ohio Central 7133, and two former Conrail units wearing Ohio Central numbers 7131 and 7137, spend a quiet evening at the Larry's Truck and Electric facility. These three engines were f... (more)
A little St. Patty's Day green in the form of BN 5020 leading a westbound on the former Burlington Route at Greenwood, NE, enroute Lincoln and beyond. A GP50 and LMX B39-8 trail.
Empty train X79 leb by a C30-7 #9406, this is a ex-ATSF #8137, BNSF #5180, NREX #8137.
The Union Depot area in Pueblo, Colorado was once teeming with passenger activity. That activity was supplanted by a seemingly never-ending parade of Powder River coal trains like this 112-car one... (more)
While five 3000-hp Burlington Northern C-C’s cross the trestle over the Salt Creek in Pueblo, Colorado, Powder River-bound empty hoppers snake behind them. Although the train disappears behind t... (more)
An empty auto rack train moves east on the Santa Fe at Abo Canyon, New Mexico.
Getting used to Santa Fe rails, a pair of BN motors lead a fast rolling eastbound through the curves in Camden, MO. The venerable wig wag crossing signal here started clanging well before a train ... (more)
A trio of now extinct locomotives pull NS 146 as the 3 man crew prepares to switch the Logansport Yard probably in October of 1989.
LS&I's duo of C30-7s leads 3 Tilden out of the yard at Eagle Mills. One of the C30-7s has since suffered a major mechanical failure and was retired.
While it never worked under the FerroMex banner, it certainly got the paint for it.
A trio of BN C30-7s lead coal loads through Lin Scott, NE on a November afternoon. Already becoming old school, the C30-7s had dominated the coal routes for years but were inexorably giving way to... (more)