Afternoon shadows are already beginning to encroach upon the narrow shelf where the railroad climbs the mountain west of Altoona and Horseshoe Curve. As a set of helpers glide downgrade, symbol fr... (more)

The CNW ran a ton of grain trains to the ADM plant in Clinton out of Iowa. Many "CL"-bound grain trains could be found along the double-track mainline. For example, here, a load of grai... (more)

D40s and steel hoppers, an old-school coal train in the early 90s. An eastbound load passes by the iconic elevator structure at Clarence. The train is about 46 miles from the next crew change poin... (more)

The 2nd section of the Des Moines to Proviso manifest drops downgrade into DeWitt on the East Iowa Sub. The train is roughly 20 miles from the crew change at Clinton. The CNW 8547 became the CN 21... (more)

As I scan a lot of my early stuff, I see I went to a lot of places you wouldn't be caught dead in nowadays. It seems like in the 90s no one cared what you did; we were just a boy and his mom takin... (more)

An early version of the greatest model of the 70s. Photo by unknown. From my collection.

Local power rests in the sun by the former MP main. The 2152 had probably been here many times before. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

Burlington Northern, BN 3144 leads an E/B intermodal near the top of the canyon on February 24, 1996 with an ATSF EMD. Clearly a winter photograph in the canyon before it would turn green.

It is Cinco de Mayo and a hot Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway intermodal train is heading west across the Mojave Desert. A quartet if EMD SD45s (in two versions) lead this train: ATSF ... (more)

ATSF 5333 E/B mixed freight crossing Bridge 7 near the top of Abo Canyon, NM on February 10, 1996 with ATSF 3836 & 3843.

MP 5038 leads a westbound coal train out of Cheyenne, WY in June of 1989.

U30C 801 stored at Shoreham Roundhouse

Westbound BN passes Rochelle Depot

Former GTW 4517 at the JD Heiskell grain elevator at Bliss, ID on August 1, 1998. It was working the Lansing Grain elevator at Bliss the last time I was through there in 2019.

Southern Pacific FP7 6450 with F7B and F7A leads train 54 the Sacramento-Los Angeles "Sacramento Daylight" at Bakersfield, California on April 24, 1964. Photo by Al Chione, from my collection. ... (more)