In 1954 Southern Railway donated J-Class 2-8-0 #542 to Tanglewood Park near Clemmons NC. There it sat deteriorating for 37 years. In 1991 a deal was struck between the North Carolina Transportatio... (more)

SP 7867 is leading a stack train thru numerous curves as it climbs Beaumont Hill.

A smoking B-boat lashup drags an SP train up Beaumont Hill in 1984.

In this view at Plainview is a BNSF trackage rights train with an eclectic merger consist climbing the Front Range on a summer afternoon.

The MRS transfer to/from the Alton and Southern's Gateway Yard climbs the east approach to the MacAuthur Bridge.

A view of Conrail's Bethlehem engine terminal ready tracks in 1977. The Septa RDC's were protecting Bethlehem - Lansdale service on the Bethlehem Branch that ended in 1981. The 2 Lehigh Valley &qu... (more)

Paducah GP's are pulling grain from the Union Pacific yard in Council Bluffs, IA.

Stacks behind a GP7 on the Iowa Interstate in 1987. The GP in PNC colors was built as Union Pacific 725 in 1953.

Chicago Great Western Baldwin DS4-4-1000, 1000hp switcher built in 1949 shown here in original color scheme CGW road numbers 32-41. Unknown Photographer from my Collection.

Chicago Great Western Baldwin DS4-4-1000, 1000hp switcher built in 1949 shown here in original color scheme CGW road numbers 32-41. Unknown Photographer from my Collection.

Santa Fe’s 881 train storms through Wilbern, Illinois, led by freshly-rebuilt EMD SDP40F No. 5261 on May 18, 1985.

A Conrail C36-7/SD50 combination hauls coal away from one of the mines on the Monongahela’s Waynesburg Southern branch. The train is on the huge fill at Rogersville, Pennsylvania, with part of the... (more)

MKT AS16M 126 at Parsons KS October 1968. Built as MKT 1571 in September 1950 and rebuilt by EMD in November 1958. The MKT sold these EMD/Baldwin hybrids in 1972 and power short CNW picked these u... (more)

Burlington Northern F9A 794 leading a train through Rices Point Yard as a DWP transfer waits in the clear at Duluth October 1976. This train likely originated at Bridge Yard in downtown Duluth and... (more)

Diesels have always been banned from New York's Grand Central Terminal, but in the wake of a severe power shortage in 1983, Metro North was forced to borrow E8s from New Jersey Transit and Amtrak ... (more)