North Direction Freight waits for Daylight/Starlight meet.

Departing Hornell

East Bound approaching Rock Island Crossing and JD tower

Based on the mid-day looking sun, this Conrail SERU7 was running a bit later than usual. SERU was a Selkirk NY to Rutherford PA (Albany to Harrisburg) manifest that went capital city to capital ci... (more)

Santa Fe 8798 rounds the curve on the Cajon Summit, and into the early morning sunlight, as it leads an eastbound intermodal towards Barstow.

An eastbound Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe train of empty autoracks, with ATSF U36C 8784 leading a mix of GE and EMD locomotives, rounds the well-known curve leading to Cajon Pass' Summit. (Cajon Pa... (more)

PURCELL OK (October) 1975 — Santa Fe U36Cs 8726, 8735 and GP39-2 3604 have been cut off their train and moved to the station to accommodate a crew change. Beside them U23B 6341 is on the point o... (more)

CLOVIS NM Jan 22 1984 — As the shadows grow long and the light fades Santa Fe U36C 8794 is westbound at the New Mexico Division-Plains Division border. My photo.

NORMAN OK Oct 8 1980 — Santa Fe U36C 8729 is at the head end of train 513 as it passes the Amtrak station. The mixed freight is northbound and running at the timetable-dictated 45 mph. My photo.... (more)

WAYNOKA OK (May) 1978 — Santa Fe U36C 8757 rolls past the slow-moving GP30 3235 eastbound on the Transcon. Note the crewman on the GP30 waving hello. I slept under the stars in a pickup bed alon... (more)

Two former Erie Lackawanna U36C’s are assisted by a former Penn Central U25B as they lead a Conrail train approaching Altoona, Pennsylvania, about a mile east of Horseshoe Curve.

AT&SF 8771 leads a westbound intermodal through the Mojave River Narrows near Victorville, CA. March 23, 1985

An eastbound Santa Fe freight circumnavigates the famed Tehachapi Loop as it climbs out of California’s San Joaquin Valley and up into the Mojave Desert. ATSF U36C 8716 leads this train, follow... (more)

ATSF freight coming from the Tehachapi mountains. Shot by Car.

Santa Fe GE U36C No. 8753 wears a new coat of SPSF Merger paint, also known as “Kodachrome” colors, at the railroad’s locomotive facility at Corwith Yard in Chicago, Illinois, on August 10, ... (more)