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)

A pair of CN SD40-2Ws wait out the snow storm in the Fraser Canyon near the Hope depot. At this moment, nature is winning, but within the next day things will start to get back to normal.

Delivered in early 1978 from EMD, SP GP40-2 No. 7625 still shows off its shiny red paint as it leads a westbound manifest through San Timoteo Canyon. This part of the canyon, a little east of Ordw... (more)

After sundown, with a pair of grain hoppers sitting in the set-out track, Santa Fe 3549 West roars past headed for the summit and Richmond beyond. It's rare to see a GP38 in these parts, as 4-axle... (more)

Ex-Lehigh Valley 508 leads this loaded coal train north to New York state on Conrail's Corning Secondary. Within three months the last through trains would travel between Williamsport, PA and Corn... (more)