With the yard empty on a dreary winter's day Amtrak's Empire Builder slows for it's conditional stop at Portage,WI..

NP SD45 3617 and GN SD45 400 "Hustle Muscle" together at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. Volunteers were doing some work on 3617 as the museum hopes to have it operational in the near... (more)

Remnants of a Bygone Era : Deep in the woods of the Steep Rock Preserve, sits one of the few remaining landmarks of what once was the Shepaug Railroad. The Shepaug Railroad was chartered i... (more)

This former NP F9 has been exposed after the second unnecessary staircase was removed. From what i know, this may be the only locomotive currently adorning SPS colors and is located at Columbia Go... (more)

Mason City to Calmer turn having just toped the grade a nice set of MILW SD10s all matching paint looked great.

Milwaukee Road 3030 West passes the big substation at East Portal as it heads toward the long bore that tunnels under the Bitterroots. No. 3030 was later renumbered to 160.

Adam Farence Photo.....GP40 not 49....sorry about that...the eyes are not what they used to be....Thanks....Tom.

Soon to enter its 65th year, HUTX 1829 sits parked outside of the Hutchinson Salt Company facility on the Southeast side of Hutchinson. Originally built as Great Northern 677, the past six decade... (more)

An A-B-B-A set of covered wagons is parked near the Bensenville hump in 1976.

A baker’s dozen years after the Great Northern was merged into the Burlington Northern, an unaltered 50’ GN boxcar rolls through Lilly, Pennsylvania.

Southbound Soo Line freight passes Milwaukee Road Operator Don Herrings Ford(49/50?)in the Duplainville Tower parking lot many moon ago!

On a snowy day 42 years ago we've come down the 1%+stopping at Watertown,WI. to make a set out and pick up. This train was one of our worst in the winter as there were usually a lot of air leaks o... (more)

Another damp dreary Sunday at West Milwaukee Shops Round House One........It had to be a Sunday as that was always my day to snoop around and see what was what in the shops. In the 60's the shops ... (more)

Sumpter's "Stump Dodger" plies its trade. Sumpter Valley Mikado #19 demonstrates the line's "raison d'etre" as she hauls loads of logs out of the forests in Eastern Ore... (more)

Amtrak Train 71, the westbound Niagara Rainbow, pauses at Buffalo Central Terminal before continuing to Detroit.