Someone in Sparks had a sense of humor when they tacked this "showroom condition" F7 on the point of Espee's premiere transcontinental streamliner, the City of San Francisco, seen here near runnin... (more)

Same color! A late-1940s Ford pickup encounters NP veteran GP7 switching the Yakima Local at a sawmill in Ronald. Note tailings pile at right, a reminder of coal mines that powered NP steam locomo... (more)

Extra 21 East has just emerged from Snoqualmie Tunnel at Hyak, summit of the Cascades (2562'). Note poor condition of the siding, still in daily use. That's the Hyak substation in the background, ... (more)

Westbound Train 201 ascends Boylston Hill at the east switch of Doris. The 16-mile, 2.2%, 2000-foot climb from the Columbia River is longest and steepest on the Milwaukee.

With less than a month to go before the March 1980 embargo, Milwaukee's Sumas Turn crosses the BN mainline along the Bellingham waterfront. After adding a few cars, the train will head for Tacoma ... (more)

Happier times: Crowds watch the eastbound California Zephyr slow to a stop at Niles.

A BC Rail coal train with CN SD50F 5434 in the lead stops alongside a pair of BCR GF6C electric helpers at Table on BC Rail's Tumbler Subdivision. Early on, it was found that the electrics weren't... (more)

Eighteen thousand horsepower from three GF6Cs take an AAR Lubrication Test Vehicle (measuring track friction) across the Murray River Bridge just west of Tumbler Ridge townsite.

Recently rebuilt SP&S 700 rolls through Lyle on its first long-distance test run to Wishram. Those freight cars and leased EMD GP38 756 served the Goldendale Branch, abandoned shortly after this p... (more)

Freshly shopped Alco RS-32 No. 4005 (one of 10 delivered in 1962) and caboose 1060 await passage of a Peninsula commute train at Millbrae. Sister 4009 (still in SP livery) stars in a June 2012 a C... (more)

Extra 21 West (probably Train 200) awaits a crew change at Three Forks.

A westbound CN stack train crosses the Fraser River at Cisco. The track to the left leads to a connection to the CPR, crossing underneath at this point. A train derailed on this bridge causing a t... (more)

Greyhound UP 844 heads down Medbury Hill with the Idaho Centennial Special. The train spent the night in Boise and is headed for Pocatello. DDA40X 6936 is providing the necessary dynamic braking. ... (more)

Pairs of Train Masters on the SF Peninsula were rare, but this was a "Big Game" Cal-Stanford football game special waiting for the game to end at Palo Alto. TMs 3029 and 3027 are in charge of 15 b... (more)

A westbound WP freight leaving Oroville Yard with four F7s and a GP9 trailing.