Q299 rolls westbound through Downtown Akron Ohio with a strange leader and a dirty Union Pacific unit. Somehow this GP39-2 has made it out of captive service in the Bone Valley Region in Florida a... (more)

A late St Paul Turn passes under the endangered signal bridge at Hoffman Ave with two ex-Kennecott Copper GP39s leading a pair of ex-SOO Caterpillars.

After retrieving an empty grain hopper and four tank cars of beef tallow at the Tri-Miller Packing Plant in Hyrum, the Cache Valley Local climbs a short 1.25% grade through Wellsville on the way t... (more)

The Cache Valley Local wanders through the green fields of Richmond with cars for Smithfield, Lewiston, and Preston.

Portland & Western train 735R, a rock train, has just come out of the quarry in Hopmere, a section of Salem, Oregon, where the train originates, led by GP39-2 2303. Now on the mainline, the train... (more)

The Hankinson Switch returns to base with a Candy Apple Red GP39-2 leading the way.

Sitting outside the Portland & Western yard office in Eugene are GP39-2s 2304 "Corvallis" and 2302 "Adair Village." Each of these were originally Santa Fe units: 2304 was ATSF... (more)

A pair of BNSF GP39-2s work the yard at Willbridge on the northwest side of Portland. Downtown Portland can be seen in the distance below the signal bridge. The lineage of the lead GP39-2 is obv... (more)

Traffic at Essex
On the day after Christmas 2007, a traffic jam is occurring at Essex, Montana, while more light snow continues to fall. Amtrak No. 8 is in town making its Essex station... (more)

Willamette Crossing

A former BN GP39-2 and a heavily graffitied shoving platform work the Grove Yard with a few ex SOU boxcars in tow. In the foreground are a few of the many SD75's (and C44-9W's) that make up the st... (more)

On a bright Tuesday morning, a Portland & Western train passes a blackberry farm on its way along the railroad's Oregon Electric District, as a trio of former Santa Fe GP39-2s leads the train east... (more)

Many are lamenting the "loss" of the D&H as NS purchases much of the line from the CP. To me, the D&H was lost a long time ago. A classic, late D&H, 3 builder lashup, in 3 paint scheme variatons, ... (more)

It is a busy morning in lot 5 of the BNSF Intermodal Facility in north Denver. BNSF 2854 and mate head toward the camera, runing long hood forward after dropping off a load of empty container cars... (more)