Streets of Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz, Big Trees & Pacific (SCBG) CF-7 no. 2641 is seen crawling up Chestnut St with the Beach Train, heading to Felton. The former Santa Fe locomotive was c... (more)

Big Trees by the Pacific. Santa Cruz, Big Trees & Pacific (SCBG) CF-7 locomotive 2641 is seen shoving the Beach Train out into the street towards the Santa Cruz boardwalk.

Wayside Wig Wag. Santa Cruz, Big Trees & Pacific (SCBG) CF-7 locomotive 2641 is seen leading the Beach Train down Chestnut St in Santa Cruz, passing the wig-wag signal on Lincoln St. Th... (more)

Aberdeen & Rockfish AF18 working the old yard in Fayetteville

Light power headed north across the drawbridge.

The Iowa Northern served the Cedar Falls Utilities until it closed in 2016. Most of that coal came from the IC southern Illinois mines that were interchanged to the Iowa Northern at Waterloo. Due ... (more)

The Return Of The Clamdigger. For 'Throwback Thursday' let's go back to 34 years ago today, August 29, 1990. Pardon the diminutive height of the young photographer, but there was great exci... (more)

While CFRC had taken over this end of the former CSXT Sanford Subdivision, they hadn't implemented any traffic yet. Here, a contracted rail train is using a FCEN crew to run for expansion, passin... (more)

On a sunny morning in Chicago's south side, HZRX CF7 #1500 shoves a short train of scrap gons into one of the mills at South Shore Recycling. This unit was built as a Santa Fe F7A and has been wor... (more)

#50 is leading a loaded rail train under contract with CFRC as they begin the second phase of SunRail construction, which widely improved this photo angle in the end....up until this moment, I'd n... (more)

In a truly inspired application of irony someone named this place, desolate, cold and presided over by one lonely buzzard hungry for a meal and unlikely to find one. A coal train trundles its way... (more)

HZRX CF7 #1500 is still earning its keep in 2023 at South Chicago Recycling off Avenue O and 116th Street. The engine is leased from Horizon Rail, or HZRX. It was originally built as a F7A for the... (more)

An Archer Daniels Midland CF7 and SW1200 sit next to the Mississippi River flood wall at the ADM grain facility on Prairie Avenue in St. Louis.

Pioneer Valley CF7 #2558 waits its fate at Casella Waste in Holyoke. I saw a photo of it here a couple months prior so I was surprised to see it still on one piece...

April showers are drenching western Kentucky as an inbound train of steam coal arrives behind some Santa Fe veterans at a place whose name is just a tiny bit of a misnomer. Photo by Jim Satterw... (more)