Heading west through the Flint Hills on the Atchison Topeka & Santa Feā€™s Middle Division Fourth District, near Matfield Green, is an Santa Fe piggyback train, powered by ATSF SD45-2 5645, three ... (more)

Here is one for the modelers. Unknown when and why this ex CRR unit got blue below the frame but it did.

The hottest train on the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, the Super C piggyback train, crests the summit of Cajon Pass on a snowy March morning. This piggyback train has a faster schedu... (more)

Santa FE 5829 is a rebuilt SD45-2 classed as an SD45-2u. It's leading an eastbound wasting no time passing Camden, MO with a GP60M, C30-7 and an LMX B39-8 in the consist. Kodachrome.

After spending the morning working with the CL-2 crew to get both jobs ready, the New York, Susquehanna & Western's CL-1 job adds an empty covered hopper to the north of a set of empty welded rail... (more)

With the railroad's two SD45's leading the way, New York, Susquehanna & Western's CL-1 crew brings an empty welded rail train south from Cortland to Binghamton. At the south end of the siding alon... (more)

The sun is beginning to set as Cotton Belt 9278 slowly leads a long eastbound manifest past the El Casco crossovers in San Timoteo Canyon.

The Santa Feā€“Southern Pacific merger was an attempted corporate consolidation of two of the major railroads in the Western United States at the time: the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway an... (more)

New York Susquehanna & Western (NYSW) 3634, 3618 an SD45-2 and 3014 an SD40T-2 are sitting in Cortland NY 10-5-25.

ATSF 5865 leads an E/B Intermodal near the top of Abo Canyon approaching the last cut before Scholle with ATSF 5088, BN 8095 and a BN B30-7A.

Heading east, which is uphill here, is an Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Freight train, with (nearly) eight-year-old SD45-2 5678 on the headend. In about 5 miles, this train will traverse the... (more)

Roster Photo of Utah Railway 9012 SD45-2 at Elma, WA on May 10, 2003. The Utah 9012 was on lease to the Puget Sound and Pacific at this time and was originally ATSF 5625.

BNSF 1568 is completing its daily duties at the Vancouver Yard. Since Interbay Shops and Balmer Yard in Seattle closed in June of this year, 1568 has taken up residency in Vancouver.

ATSF 5823 E/B Intermodal in the cut between Bridge 1 and 2 in the lower section of Abo Canyon, NM on October 26,1996 with ATSF 5980 and another LM 8541 a Burlington Northern lease unit.

Built for SCL. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.