In the low red sun of a late midwinter day in a most eventful year, this unit waits for a signal to cross the KCS main. Photo by Jim (that's him) Satterwhite. From my collection.

Couldn't let this one go unremarked. I've always wondered about the purpose of that little door in this 1957-58 built cab. Photo by Gary Zeitler. From my collection.

A cold winter day at the children's railway.

EMD dynamic brake components stored at Silvis. Eventually, some of them will be used by National Railway Equipment to rebuild locomotives inside the former Rock Island backshop.

Albany Port's new power heads out of the shed. There will be another one of these cleaner and greener locomotives joining 2502 sometime this Spring.

waiting in the midday sun for the next assignment

Regional train Algeciras-Granada at Antequera Station.

Talgo Bilbao-Madrid at Villamayor de los Montes Station.

CN ET44AC 3230, CN ET44AC 3201 and BNSF ES44AC 5991 head east through Uncas.

BNSF ACe 9009 leads a loaded coal train south on the Joint Line through Palmer Lake, Colorado.

BNSF Warbonnet 4717 (Dash9) paces a sports car running down Atwood Street in Longmont, Colorado.

BNSF 5489 (Dash9) and BNSF 9716 (SD70MACe) work the Longmont Switch running between Longmont and Fort Collins, Colorado on the Front Range Sub.

Thick fog and floating ice crystals at sunrise create a golden sun dog diamond as BNSF 9716 (SD70MACe) gets ready to take a cut of freight cars out of the yard in Longmont, Colorado.

Thick fog and freezing frost blanket the Front Range Sub as BNSF 6341 (ES44AC) leads a freight through Highlands, Colorado.

BNSF 5489 (Dash9) runs light on the Front Range Sub through Berthoud, Colorado.