It's hard to get much more Illinois Central than this. After an equipment failure in route with one of the trailing Amtrak Chargers, IC SD70 #1027 was sent to the rescue on this 7+ hour late City ... (more)

The Chessie heritage unit aways it call to lead 584 out of Chattanooga Tn. April 2024

On Labor Day 1995, an Amtrak California F59 leads the northbound Coast Starlight through Northern California. The locomotive was headed for Tacoma to be repainted.

Ready for the road again.

L576 passes through cranberry marshes during the return trip to Blair. The job made a 77 car pickup in Wisconsin Rapids in addition to exchanging CN 2646 for CN 2765.

With a train of steaming pellets from the Fairlane Taconite Plant in tow, DMIR 406 leads CN U71781-04 as it slowly makes its way into the yard at Proctor, Minnesota to tie the train down where it ... (more)

In one of the many swags on this line a train is unloading new 136# rail to replace the old 132# stuff. Quite a noisy racket.

Planes, Trains and Tractors......The Sugar Express pulls out all the stops for the photo charter. Rebranded locomotives, check, Crop duster, check. John Deere tractor, check.

Steam Throwback. Wearing its original C&O garb, the 1309 runs the famous curve on a cold February morning.

Wisconsin & Southern train L469 with the sand empties return from Middleton for the yard at Madison.

Norfolk Southern Freight Train 187 heads westbound through downtown Bremen, GA. on their way to Norris Yard in Irondale, AL.

Republic Locomotives took many forms. This CAT powered beast is a switcher version whereas others were more like road engines. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

5 unit light engine move Southbound on the River Division behind ex-New York Central U30B 2847.

Ex CSX B-40 in fresh paint at Parker, AZ.

NS Train BD27 with the SD40-2 Highhood NS 1628 shoves back onto Zug Island with a single coil and a boxcar, on a super rainy tuesday fall november night in Detroit. The Zug Island Flame is to than... (more)