A Richard Beal photo: Richards wife poses colorfully next to the weary Southern Crescent in the early morning hours at NOLAUPT, soon they will board and head toward Washington D.C. The Crescent... (more)
A Richard Beal photo: Coasting through Bluefield, WV yard, a set of two SD40's bracketing a SD45 heads toward the engine house
A Richard Beal photo: Any help on the locale would be appreciated, lots of CP Alco RS18's lined up at this yard shop complex presumably in Maine.
A Richard Beal photo: Working the yard in Bangor, the classy paint scheme of the B&A looks nice this summer day
A Richard Beal photo: BO Tower, controlling the diamond of the NYC-GTW-PRR in Kalamazoo looks a little nicer in this 1966 view. This tower is still active today, though slightly stripped down a... (more)
A Richard Beal photo: Kilgore Yard is the small GT pocket yard on the west side of Kalamazoo, they have a branch that runs from their main line at Pavilion, MI to Kalamazoo serving industries t... (more)
A Richard Beal photo: While riding a fantrip behind the CN 6167, a stop in Stratford finds Richard shooting the deadline, here we see two of the same class of CN 4-8-4s, the 6200 unstreamlined ... (more)
A Richard Beal photo: Loading at the depot, you can see the early piggybacks behind the E's
A Richard Beal photo: Looking west from US-131 (not the major highway it is now), a NYC passenger crosses 11th street. The farm is long gone and KL avenue in the background is now lined with st... (more)
A Richard Beal photo: Across from where Waldo Stadium is on the campus of Western Michigan University, a NYC MOW train is busy spreading and cleaning the ballast. This line is still active and ... (more)
A Richard Beal photo: In the Stratford CN shop area, a ancient steam shovel scoops coal into a hopper
A Richard Beal photo: Coasting into LaSalle Street Station, Richard snaps a quick shot out the window of a departing NYC train with a E8A in the lead
A Richard Beal photo: A GT train clunks over the diamond at Delray tower, this engine is an anomaly, as I could not locate it on CN's roster of the 70's. Any help would be appreciated, black an... (more)
A Richard Beal photo: The early days of Conrail have come to Detroit, an ex-EL bicenntenial SDP45 hangs out in the evening in this ex-NYC yard.
A Richard Beal photo: A Southern GP30 leads a freight somewhere in Kentucky, if someone else has extra information on the locale, that would be great.