TH&B caboose no. 81 shows its Canadian Pacific influence as it is basically a modern CP caboose, sharing the same shade of yellow. It was parked at Hamilton yard along with a mix of TH&B and CP po... (more)

MILW No. 22 leads a dead freight across the Columbia River at Beverly, WA. The massive bridge and train are minimized by the surrounding landscape.

In our Bicentennial summer Amtrak still used the Minneapolis Great Northern station for its stop. It is visible in the background as the North Coast Hiawatha departs across the Mississippi River o... (more)

An Lake Superior & Ishpeming dock crew works their ore dock near Marquette, MI while the Herbert C. Jackson ore carrier takes on taconite ore. The ship will leave later that evening. While visitin... (more)

Former CNW 4153, now DBGX 4153 plays hide'n seek between elevator silos and storage tanks at De Bruce Grain, Fremont, NE. Like a cat with nine lives, this 1952 GP7 began life as Wabash 471, became... (more)

An eastbound oil train rolls along the Kootenai River at Kootenai Falls, west of Libby, MT as clouds break up and sun breaks through. The train is making a run from Hauser, ID to Whitefish, MT on ... (more)

CP 5808 leads a quintet of SD40-2s west out of Field, BC headed for Kicking Horse Canyon and Golden, BC. Action red could brightened up even the darkest of days.

Having unloaded passengers at Leavenworth, the Snow Train heads into Wenatchee for cleaning and to place power on the observation end for the trip back to Seattle. Here the deadheaded train passes... (more)

A CNW "Scoot" heads northwest on CNW"s Harvard line at Des Plaines, IL. The train is about to cross the Soo Line diamond and will cross the CNW freight line in a quarter mile. Thes... (more)

SP 4336 and an SP cupola caboose go on duty at Lebanon, OR. Lebanon was a hub for some SP locals and also the Oregon Electric (BN) at the time. This line is now handled by the Albany & Eastern Rai... (more)

After releasing passengers at Vancouver's waterfront station, the Canadian completes its transcontinental trip by heading into a tunnel under the city which takes it to the coach yards south of do... (more)

Soo Line GP35 729 handles switching at Irvine Yard, Chippewa Falls, Wis. The sunny morning will soon change to fall rain. Irvine handled crew changes and switching for local traffic for the branch... (more)

Grand Trunk Western GP9 4904 and a former Rock Island GP38-2 idle while Detroit and Toledo shoreline SW00s 119 and 121 handle switching chores on the hump at their yard on the north side of Toledo... (more)

DMIR Phase IV SD9 no. 166 cools it heels outside of the Missabe diesel shop at Proctor, MN on a decent summer day. It looks like it's seen better days, but this survivor still has many years of se... (more)

DMIR 166, a Phase IV SD9, and the last high nose SD9 to operate on the Missabe joins with SD18 No. 181 to compare notes at Proctor, Minn. in July 1976. Note the subtle difference between the units... (more)