Numerous GP9s and GP30s stored around the roundhouse at Elkins, West Virginia, during a coal strike in May of 1981.
An eastbound train has quite a tailwind as it leaves Salina, Kansas, in August of 1978. The second unit is a CF7 rebuild.
An eastbound coal train passes a westbound autorack train waiting for additional cab signal equipped power.
Maybe, someday, this pair of classic F-units can regularly power the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway trains out of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.
Norfolk & Western 8476 is putting a fresh caboose on an westbound train at Roanoke.
WM 4314 and C&O 4416 are preparing to leave Raleigh for Quinnimont, with a train of loaded coal hoppers, while the rest of the Piney Creek power waits for assignment.
Alco RS-11s still being used in mainline service in 1981 on the Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific in northern Minnesota - they even have the newest paint scheme.
Hot Rail!! The rail is steaming after a pass by the rail grinder. It's now heading for the Reese's Plant at the west end of Hershey Pennsylvania
An early morning westbound empty hopper train is slowly crossing the Hawks Nest bridge right below the Hawks Nest Lodge (this was the view from my balcony).
These BN engines haven't been to the paint shop yet as they work pulling an ore train through Hibbing, Minnesota, in August of 1976.
Miscellaneous engines on the ready track next to the Grand Trunk Western shops in Battle Creek.
Even under the clouds, with the mountain mist moving in, the old Chessie paint scheme really stood out.
Brand new CNW GP-15s switch the downtown yard in Duluth, Minnesota, in August of 1976.
The only Alco RS36 on the C&NW roster was still on duty in 1985, and renumbered in anticipation of the UP merger.
The daily Houghton-Nestoria turn is arriving at the yard at Houghton, Michigan, passing under the campus of Michigan Technological University - my alma mater. The college has expanded since then ... (more)
