The C36-7 were delivered in Union Pacific paint but Missouri Pacific markings. This was to be an epic train chase with my dad and brother that I will never forget. Unfortunately this would be the ... (more)

CSX C36-7 7117 in its former CR paint leads a track geometry train from Louisville.

Camden to Elkhart manifest CAEL grinds up the mountain passing MG, which was still in part-time service at this date. This big GE leads an SD60 and SD60I with a pair of SD40-2s shoving. Scanned fr... (more)

MRS GE C36M #3882-5 leading a westbound bauxite train, waiting in the yard of Campinas, Sao Paulo for a permit to proceed to the plant in Aluminio, Sao Paulo, Brazil

C36-7i 1531 (MP 9042) & TEM TMH-055+057 On route to Koidula with palm oil train

One of the neat things about the Louisville area was that I could at lease get a trickle of an "exotic" railroad action here. Here the regular daily southbound mixed freight arrives to ... (more)

Look at the Kodachrome. ATSF seemed really enthusiastic about the repaint as if it would make the ill-fated merger go through somehow. One of the few cases where disaster was avoided.

Operail C36-7i 1505 running long hood forward with a 55 car freight train from Vaivara to Kohtla.

The sun has just set and a thick fog appeared when Operail GE C36-7i number 1505 (Ex MP 9039) is seen working a heavy tanker train from Kohtla to Vaivara on the Tapa-Narva mainline between Kohtla ... (more)

The sun has just set when Operail GE C36-7i number 1505 (Ex MP 9039) departs Kohtla yard as a light engine to Narva.

A Norfolk Southern coal train passes through Oakvale WV bewind a pair of C36-7s, with NS 8541 leading. (Oakvale West Virginia – November 2, 1984). John Held photograph, Craig Walker collecti... (more)

Norfolk Southern, NS 8502-6607, with an eastbound coal drag on the Pocahontas Divison at Maybeury, West Virginia. February 21, 1992 Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

An EB loaded coal train in meeting WB hoppers at the east end of the yard. In the background some of the old steam-era buildings remain. My favorite structure though, is the old switchman's shan... (more)

In the dying sunlight an empty WB hopper train heels into a curve on the upgrade along the East River, down between the many ridges of the Appalachians.

Following the East River between the ridges the Norfolk & Western had a few squiggles to negotiate to reach the easy grades along the beautiful New River. Just east of Oakvale this train, its dy... (more)