Just two-and-a-half years old, Southern Pacific U33C has been stripped to its bare bones and sits on a whisker track at Southern Pacific's Taylor Yard, in Los Angeles CA, due to being a bit too cl... (more)

What a Recession Looks Like

A visit to Southern Pacific's primary yard and shop complex in Los Angeles, Taylor Yard (located just north of downtown), during the 1973-1975 recessi... (more)

State Line Interlocking was one of the busiest interlockings into the 1970s. In this July 1974 scene from the tower, a northbound Erie Lackawanna freight has just crossed the B&OCT on its way to ... (more)

Departing Hornell Yard

Sailing through Huntingdon, PA on a June afternoon, symbol ALPI9F retains its Conrail designation (Allentown-Conway) for now. A renumbered B23-7 and a B36-7 also retain their Conrail colors with a... (more)

Most everybody else bought small orders of these, if any, but SP jumped in with both feet. They were big, they sounded good and they were very flawed.

An eastbound intermodal is departing and headed for Beaumont Hill. Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.

One of the notoriously heavy gravel trains which delighted railfans is heading east in the big yard.

One of the units most unloved by its owners and crews, always first to go into storage or out on lease or so it seemed, they sure sounded good anyway.

CR 6571, a former Erie Lackawanna unit, leads a B36-7 on a westbound manifest passing beneath the signal bridge at MP245.5 just east of Bennington. Fuji 100HG negative film.

Delaware and Hudson, D&H U33C 761 -U30C 705, with NE87 on Conrail's ex-Reading line at CP Burn, Allentown, Pennsylvania. February 11, 1978. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Delaware and Hudson, D&H U33C's 758 -#759 at ex-LV Oak Island engine terminal, Newark, New Jersey. May 10, 1977. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

BN U33C 5704 and mate, both featuring a coat of winter grime sit at the engine facilities at BN's Harrison St. roundhouse location. BN5704 was built in May 1968 as GN 2534, and would continue in s... (more)

SHERMAN TX (July) 1974 — SP U33C 8683 leads a mixed freight across the diamonds as it crosses the Missouri Pacific. Note the L-shaped windshield. My photo.

Lest we long too much for the "Good Old Days" note that in these IC Industries had busied themselves bottling fizzy sugar water or something else of similar importance. But the GEs of t... (more)