Amtrak Super Chief awaits departure in Los Angles

#2 San Fransisco Chief and #24 formerly Grand Canyon are read for departure to Chicago.

Grinding up the pass eastbound this train is taking the long way as was usual, crossing the creek, which seems to be flowing pretty well. This and the lush green of the bushes indicate recent rai... (more)

It's the Illinois Railway Museum's annual Diesel Days event, and on this Sunday the mainline trains were running primarily with cab units. Here, ATSF 92 waits in Johnson siding with the coach trai... (more)

Santa Fe 92 leads the coach train East past the semaphores at Olson Road.

Eastbound manifest, with SD45 6582 trailing 6652. Both units were ex ATSF.

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe FP45 5992 (ex-5942, nee-102), teamed with FP45s 5991 and 5998, is on the point of a 14-car Analysts' Special climbing Cajon Pass as the train heads from San Diego to Bak... (more)

WC 6652 shows off its' Santa Fe heritage as it rolls thru Byron, WI. in June of 1995. This was WC's only FP45 and it sure brightened up an otherwise dismal day.

The return of the Superfleet. The EMD FP45 were a beautiful locomotive, in the red and silver paint scheme. (Tom Ellis photo)

A quartet of Wisconsin Central EMD 20-cylinder locomotives power train 51 at Ackerville, Wisconsin, on April 16, 1997. On the lead is WC’s only FP45, No. 6652, followed by F45 No. 6656, SD45 No.... (more)

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe EMD FP45 No. 90 rests at the Corwith Yard engine facility near Chicago, Illinois, on September 1, 1991. These EMD cowl locomotives were built at the request of Santa Fe... (more)

Having worked the mainline trains for the day, #108 heads back to the barn for the night.

The sun is setting on a cold December 7, 1996, as Wisconsin Central train 47 rolls through Brookfield, Wisconsin and is past its venerable depot. WC train 46/47 was a North Fond du Lac to Milwauke... (more)

Former Santa Fe FP45 no. 97 sits on display at the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, TX.

#95 under the stars.