SP 6771 is about to duck under the Pepper Street overpass as it leads a westbound manifest train into the West Colton yard.

SP 6771, with Cotton Belt 7655 and 7642, leads a westbound manifest train into the West Colton yard on a typical Southern California smoggy day.

On a quiet Sunday afternoon, Boston & Maine F7 4265 rests inside the roundhouse at the B&M's Boston Engine Terminal.

A nice A-B-B-A set of DD35's were waiting for their next assignment at UP's East Los Angeles facility.

After bringing up the rear on trains of anthracite, this ex-Lehigh Valley caboose ended up working in the bituminous coal fields of western Pennsylvania. This is the rear of the more)

Having dumped their loads for the Jones & Laughlin steel furnaces, hoppers are now being returned by the Cuyahoga Valley to interchange connections. Soon they will be back at the mines.

Amtrak train 710 makes a station stop in Merced, CA, under beautiful springtime skies. In the lead are two ex-SP FP7s, one already repainted into Amtrak livery. The train is on the station track, ... (more)

After Santa Fe took over Toledo, Peoria & Western, home road locomotives were disposed of or dispersed into the Santa Fe system. Initially, the AT&SF brought in a fleet of EMD GP39-2s to operate o... (more)

Bangor and Aroostook GP7R 65-70 and an ex-Conrail GP38 with stored BL-2's at N. Maine Jct. yard, Bangor,Maine

The Oneida & Western was a railroad without track. Due to the Louisville & Nashville’s inability to supply sufficient empty cars and power, the Shamrock Coal Company bought its own cars and SD40-2... (more)

CP Rail's two GP30s 5000-5001 (1st#8200-8201) were wreck replacement units ordered to test the new second generation models being marketed by GMDD. CP was pleased with its two trail units and was... (more)

It's a Wonderful Life! PC 2042 leads a local from Geneva to Cayuga through downtown Seneca Falls, NY. Seneca Falls served as the inspiration of the fictional town "Bedford Falls" in th... (more)

Two Chicago & North Western EMD SD40-2s and two Alco C-628s try to pull a derailed coal gon back onto the rails in a snowstorm at the railroad’s Butler Yard in Wisconsin on January 4, 1986. I’m no... (more)

New Conrail GE C39-8 Nos. 6008 and 6012 sit at the locomotive facility of Burlington Northern’s Clyde Yard in Cicero, Illinois, on August 10, 1986. Conrail purchased 22 C39-8s in the summer of 198... (more)

A stretch of subzero weather in January 1984 left Amtrak's trouble-prone SPV-2000 railcars unable to propel themselves, so diesels including veteran RS-3s were drafted to keep things moving. Amtra... (more)