Santa Fe ran a diverse array of locomotive types in four and six axle configurations. A Dash8-40BW in warbonnet colors leads a GP50 and SD40-2 in the familiar freight colors as they lead a westbou... (more)

UP 2417 leads Des Moines-Kansas City symbol MDMKS-18 through busy Sheffield interlocking. An SD40-2 and two C&NW GP38-2s trail with the 98 car consist. Sheffield crossing was later changed with a ... (more)

Three big AC4400s bring empty hoppers out of the Green River valley headed for Grand Junction on the former Rio Grande. Kodachrome.

Santa Fe SD75M No. 230 and a GE companion lead a southbound manifest along the joint line on former D&RGW track between Castle Rock and Palmer Lake, CO. Fuji Sensia.

A CNW slug set, led by GP35 #860, prepares to work the south end of Butler Yard in March of 1973. The CNW had 10 sets of these slugs, used mostly in slower drag freights where speed was not a prio... (more)

A pair of GP38-2s lead a westbound local freight near Elkhorn, NE. Fuji Astia.

A few weeks into the Conrail split and Selkirk Yard is looking like it has an identity crisis. The yard power in the background were still all dressed in Conrail blue and not one of them had been... (more)

Heading west through the Flint Hills on the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe’s Middle Division Fourth District, near Matfield Green, is an Santa Fe piggyback train, powered by ATSF SD45-2 5645, three ... (more)

Power for "D&H 265" lays over in Conrail's Oak Island Yard. At the time CP Rail trains 265 and 266 were handling intermodal and general merchandise traffic into the New York metro area.... (more)

During one of several "rainbow eras" on the NYS&W, a colorful consist leads HAN-2 into Ridgefield Park. The Soo Line SD40 looks like it could have used a bath.

Late 1990s Joint Line action at its finest. A trio of clean Burlington Northern "executive" painted SD70AMACs lead a loaded BNSF coal train south over the trestle at Larkspur, CO.

A BNSF grain train led by an EMD lease unit pauses along the Mykawa Subdivision south of Houston, TX at sunset. The rails are former Santa Fe and the lead unit is former Milwaukee Road.

An eastbound UP intermodal train led by a tired-looking Southern Pacific tunnel motor grinds upgrade around Tehachapi Loop. The visiting Conrail power was a nice touch.

The "class unit" of Southern Pacific's SD70M fleet leads a long TOFC train out of the Tehachapi Mountains into Mojave, CA. The colorful consist is passing the classic SP signal bridge j... (more)

Three former Burlington Northern units lead a BNSF manifest freight south on the Joint Line at Srpuce, CO. The trio is working hard as they approach the summit at Palmer Lake in beautiful late af... (more)