On a cloudy summer morning, a helper set is tied down for the rest of the day on the storage track after pushing a hill run up the P-D District. This line will be mothballed in the coming days.

Rapid City, Pierre, & Eastern heads west out of Rapid City.

On a cloudy late September evening, a standard cab Dash 9 leads a stack train over the Coopers Viaduct.

This GE 25T is taking the day off in Glade Spring Virginia.

RTA #517 and train in the Kenosha yard before its morning trip to Chicago. The 517 was built as the CNW 5024A in July 1951 and retired on October 1, 1986

On a beautiful afternoon, NS 2577 starts to lean around the bend leading train 15T westbound on the Pulaski District.

An Aiken Rwy. GP30 retrieves a cut of cars left by NS to take them to Aiken. I think the greens look classy on the lines of the GP30.

An Aiken Rwy. GP30 retrieves a cut of cars left by NS and takes them to Aiken. Here, they pass an old textile mill similar to the ones that permeated the Carolina's "back in the day".

A few times a week, BNSF runs a transfer from the East Thomas Yard to the NS yard at 32nd Street that lays right on the edge of Downtown Birmingham. In this photo, the BNSF crew has made their set... (more)

An unknown stack train was one train in a fleet of trains that departed Bellevue in short order in nice afternoon light.

EB ICG transfer passes the Council Bluffs station. About a year after this photo was taken, this trackage became short line Chicago Central & Pacific. In 1996, the IC would re-purchase this trac... (more)

The Santa Train slowly goes by Englishtown with CSX 4412 and NS 5313!

The Streamliners posing in the night

The C & NW ran several "all-rail" ore movements during the winter of 1983-1984. Here, a SB ore extra, operating on the double track at Gurnee on the New Line, is just miles from direct interchnag... (more)