UP 3382 leads UP 3396, UP 3681, UP 3356 and UP 3330 up Cajon Pass with an eastbound manifest train.

UP 3713 is stopped on the south track at Cajon siding, waiting for traffic to clear ahead before heading down the pass to San Bernardino. Photo taken with permission from the UP crew.

Fans talked about the CSX 'stealth scheme' when the first very plain, very gray C40-8s arrived around 1990, but L&N had gone stealth years before when in the mid-1970s they stopped painting loco n... (more)

The James Whitcomb Riley moves past State Line Tower. Tom Golden photo.

Thomas Szczesniak Jr. photo.

A leader with some style, BNSF 1057 is at the head of a pair of merger predecessors handling a westbound manifest outside of Ashland, NE. The old Q signal bridge is, of course, a nice touch.

A Alco RS 1 # 5641 of the N de M railway sits by the road shop in Juarez Mexico on a Spring day in 1979. At this time there were many Alco units In use here. Two RS 1s switched the yard here

Union Pacific ALCO RSC-2 1289 equipped with an extra large snow plow at Council Bluffs, IA. in August, 1967. Photo from my slide collection, no photographer listed.

L&N 1030 and 1031 aren't much past their tenth birthdays, but they are already mostly relegated to service on secondary trains, like this long-distance local heading south from S&N Yard. On the r... (more)

This is an absolutely typical power set for L&N unit coal trains in the 1970s, with three U30Cs and an SD40-2. The EMD would outlast the C-boats, but 1549 - renumbered 7243 - did make it into Sea... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

Out on the high plains it is a steady procession of traffic this April 1st. The pole with four stripes designates the point as a milepost, in this case 386 - between Chappell and Lodgepole, NE (CQ... (more)

A classic Paducah GP10 leads an eastbound CC&P freight train through Bartlett, IL in February 1994. Original Slide. Mark Llanuza Photo. Sam Foster Collection.

Originally built as a SD45 for the Pennsy, this unit would be acquired by the CNW in the mid 1980s and rebuilt with a 12-cylinder Caterpillar engine. Tom Golden photo.