On a beautiful afternoon in North Dakota on August 30, 2018, Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s “wayfreight” crosses a tranquil Charlie’s Lake north of the town of Garrison. Powering the ... (more)
Union Pacific SD60 #6012 leads a Westbound manifest train on #3 track just West of Cheyenne near Wycon in February of 1990. This engine today currently carries the number UP #2167.
Happy Birthday Conrail! Looking at this scene of a heavy FRSE-01 coming off the grade through CP-148 on a beautiful autumn afternoon brings a pang of sadness of what might of been. I always will ... (more)
106 grain loads are headed west on the Gilman Sub with a classic deathstar SD40-3 in charge. A short time later, the crew would shove to the Cargill plant in town.
The Penn Central merger was just six months old when this Pennsy SD-45 showed up in Montreal on the daily freight from Massena, NY. For years, the power was two, four-axle units, typically RS-3's... (more)
"Rebuilds and Wrecks" NS 2527 sits outside Progress rail in the middle of its rebuild in to a SD70ACC. Along side of some CP SD90MAC rebuild behind 2527. The other side spots a wrecked Santa Fe un... (more)
Crossing a curved fill over one of the many “pothole” lakes in the region is an eastbound Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western corn train between Wishek and Lehr, North Dakota, on the afternoon o... (more)
BNSF 9734, a rebuilt SD70MAC (into an SD70MACe), leads CP 674 at LeClaire, IA.
Rounding the big curve just north of the state line, the Staley Turn heads for the beet loader at Stronghold, California on the Modoc Line.
Just after sunrise, the Olympic Torch Relay train arrives at Klamath Falls. Local Olympic decathlon champion Dan O'Brien was featured in the ceremonies at the depot.
Penn Central SD45 #6230 on the other end of the GM10B test train, (the business end seen in photo ID 690368). A Walter Schopp original Koda... (more)
Three heavies line up in the Denver Yard waiting for clearance to leave. BNSF 1966 (SD40-2) has just finished assembling a fourth train.
SP SD70M 9822 with UP SD40-2 3646 and UP SD60M 6225 at Caliente, Tehachapi Creek, CA.
A rare daylight run for the Austin Western is seen with a 5 pack of EMD SD40-2's. This is the daily southbound rock train from Marble Falls, Texas to Manor, Texas.
A former BN SD70MAC leads a ethanol train west past the landmark Ho-ka turkey sign just west of Waterman.
