A Utah Railway train with matching MPI leasers is about to enter the Thistle tunnel. The train is a loaded IPP coal train, heading down the Spanish Fork Canyon.

Conrail EMD SD40 6348, former Penn Central, nee PRR 6095. A Mike Bledsoe Photo.

Wheeling Stone train awaits orders and crew to depart the Huron Cement and Stone loop yard, sitting adjacent the massive 680 foot 1973 Toledo built self unloading bulk cargo ship, the Adam E. Corn... (more)

A load coal train, loaded at the Wattis mine, crosses Utah Railway's Gordan Creek trestle. The Wattis mine was closed in 1997, and the trestle was rarely used after that point. There hasn't been a... (more)

Soo Line 749 and others await their next assignment at the Stinson Avenue Roundhouse in Superior, WI in September of 1987. Not a trace of this facility remains today.

Two examples of Southern Railway EMD motive power are seen resting in the display yard at Grand Junction just after sunset on a hot summer night.

After meeting westbound empties (NS 585) at Tito, NS 608's pushers approach the signal at Tito as they assist 608 on its eastward journey on a rainy SW Virginia spring day.

By 1988 Southern Pacific's experimental paint scheme on 7342 is looking pretty rough. Even with the ware and tare on the paint and covered in grime. It's still a real treat to see this special loc... (more)

Two rebuilt W&LE SD40s (now SD40-2s) hook onto a rebuilt GP35 (GP35-3) in Rook Yard in a brief break of sun during a cloudy day.

CP/D&H intermodal train 557’s power puts its train together at the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The train is under the Walt Whitman Bridge, which carries Intersta... (more)

In the early 1990’s CP Rail opened an intermodal yard at Philadelphia’s Packer Avenue Marine Terminal. Here an SD40/GP9 combo roll past the travelling crane recently acquired to unload contain... (more)

GMD SD40s Deep in the Heart of Texas

Texas Gonzales & Northern owns several former Canadian National SD40s, and in 2017 they are due to get repainted into the railroad's own (and new... (more)

Southern Sisters: Southern GP30 No. 2594 and SD40 No. 3170 rest in the yard at Grand Junction.

The CN obtained trackage rights between Duluth, MN and Chicago, IL on the Burlington Northern. DWP power was somewhat common, but getting a 3 pack of SD40's was not. 5906,5909,5903.

Not long after sundown, with NS 251 and 264 RoadRailers in the foreground, a lone SD40 brings CSX grain empties up one of the "passes" into Queensgate Yard.