Just released from the San Bernardino Shops are two locomotives wearing fresh paint: Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway SD45 5307 (ex-ATSF 5508, originally ATSF 1808) and SD40 5005 (ex-ATSF 1705)... (more)

USSC #6325 leads the Fort Pierce turn over the Miami Canal at Belle Glade, FL on the last day of March.

USSC #6325 leads the Fort Pierce turn over the St. Lucie Canal at Port Mayaca, FL on the last day of March.

When Utah Railway was return to having there own power. I think they were technically leased form Helm. Four cast off Southern Pacific SD45 bring a coal train down Gilluly. I we weren't very happy... (more)

Just another day at the office. A crew is working with a former EL unit. Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.

ATSF answered the need for hump power at their new yard in Barstow by creating the unique CRSD-20 combo, contrived by applying an EMD engine to a retired Alco RSD-15 Alligator. Geared very low, t... (more)

KMTX 2022 heads out of the soon to be closed Lyondell Basell Refinery on a cold morning in Pasadena with a load a coke for the Kinder Morgan Deepwater facility in Deer Park Texas.

Rio Grande SD45 5329 and first of the SD45s, the 5315 was delivered in January 1967, leads a pair of Geeps on a westbound coal train at Grand Junction, Colorado on January 1, 1969. Photo by F.H.... (more)

The "Bozeman Bullet" from Laurel making its way towards Bozeman in some of the final sun rays of the day.

LAUBOZ heading through the small Montana town of Reed Point on the MRL 2nd Sub. This horse was the only horse that stayed mostly still as the train approached and went by. Much appreciated, horse!

The "Bozeman Bullet" running alongside the Yellowstone River as they move along at track speed for Bozeman. We went for LAUBOZ and got the surprise of with 355 leading as it finally got ... (more)

MRL 355 was, at the time, the last active MRL SD45 left on the Montana Rail Link. Before this week, the MRL 355 was running ballast trains and was sent to Laurel. Thanks to a friend, MRL 355 got p... (more)

Southern Pacific 7541 leads two Rio Grande pool units and a westbound manifest up the hill towards the summit in Cajon Pass. In the distance above the SP 7541 you can see a four unit helper set p... (more)

Union Pacific 46 and 3539 idle at the diesel service facility in the Las Vegas yard. This is the weekend when UP 8444 was on display before heading back to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and when they later ... (more)

KMTX 2022 leading the empty coke train from Deepwater back into Lyondell