Quite a bit of steam laying over on a Saturday at South Amboy
Before she was famous she was just another face in the crowd.
A K4 sits under the coal dock at South Amboy. April 30, 1955 being a Saturday, the steamers get a break from the weekday workload pulling commuters.
A K4 simmers at South Amboy.
This photo is dedicated to the late Jim Boyd, who we learned recently passed on. Somehow it seems fitting this mid-70s all-EMD consist, shot somewhere in Nebraska on the high iron of the Union Pa... (more)
CN class U-2-g #6226 brings a train into Windsor with a lake freighter of the Canada Steamship Lines seen on the left. CSL is still in business, with the world's largest fleet of dry-bulk self-un... (more)
Sleek looking CN class U-2-g #6226, only 12 years old at the time, is just in off a CN intercity passenger train run, seen h... (more)
CN class U-2-f 4-8-4 #6185 waits for work.
CN class O-18-a 0-6-0 #7467 does work at the coachyard with a wooden Wabash caboose.
As seen from the Windsor side, the SS Manitowoc to cross the Detroit River. Ferry operations continue to this day, especially with regard to hazmat in the age of terrorism v. the alternative risk... (more)
6038 is hostled to the coal chute.
Her last stop before heading out on the road, #5633 gets topped off at the chute under the watchful eye of the foreman.
The lines of shrouded 6407, seen here well after her halcyon days hauling the 1st-class varnish over the system, still have an eloquence.
A broader view of 5633 in her environs as she moves slowly by to the coal dock at Milwaukee Jct. terminal
