A small A-B-A consist has just crossed into Missouri on the Marceline Sub. The train is about 18 miles west of Ft. Madison and is working towards KC. This area was once a thriving station name... (more)

Santa Fe EMD GP50 3841 at Cable, California.

An eastbound bare-table train climbs the Tehachapi grade, as the train approaches Tunnel 3 in Allard, Ca. The train is powered by a GP50, with a pair of SF30C locomotives trailing.

BN 3100 is close to the Continental Divide as it brings a piggyback train thru Glacier National Park in May of 1990.

Westbound McCook, IL to Oklahoma City, OK, vehicle train works upgrade thru Argyle. The train is making a quick trip thru the short section of Iowa that the Transcon main runs thru in far southeas... (more)

The Spud Local passes a Herzog maintenance train parked at the Trinidad elevator for the night. The local is returning to Wenatchee's Appleyard after working Quincy and possibly Ephrata during the... (more)

The Spud Local's abbreviated train rolls west out of Quincy on the passing siding after working the town. It just met an eastbound Z train, and will stop at the signal to meet a second eastbound Z... (more)

BN Tigerstripe GP50 #3125 leads an A-B-A consist thru Rochelle, IL in September of 1985. This was pre-RR park days and everyone just hung out by the diamonds!

Indiana & Ohio GP50 5013, originally built in December of 1980 for the Burlington Northern as BN 3103, pulls a cut of cars out of McCollugh Yard and is approaching the Highland Avenue grade crossi... (more)

One of the Santa Fe's Chicago to California intermodal trains is seen passing through Hodgkins led by a GP50, GP60, B40-8, and SDF40-2. Tom Golden photo.

BNSF 3130 and a former Santa Fe GP40X have the Spud Local under control as they round Trinidad Loop on their way up to Quincy, WA. The tank cars could indicate a side trip to Ephrata is in store f... (more)

While getting a hearty wave from the engineer, three Burlington Northern GP50s spliced by a fuel tender speed a westbound SeaLand double stack train through Highlands, Illinois, on August 2, 1986.... (more)

What is normally a nocturnal operation, TPW 5015 heads east in the morning with road train. Usually the twice weekly EB road trains leave East Peoria overnight.

The corporate colors of the Indiana & Ohio Railway's parent company Genesee & Wyoming look good on EMD GP50 5013 as it drills a cut of cars in I&O's McCollugh Yard on a sunny but cold December aft... (more)

A CNW GP50 leads a pair of Union Pacific SD40-2s as they head west along the IHB main. Tom Golden photo.