BN power pulling coal empties waits as one of MP's coal service SD40-2s leads four more SD40-2s and a loaded coal train. I spent a lot of time in southeast Kansas in the 1980s, and saw lots of PR... (more)

The Clouds Giveth, and the Clouds Taketh Away

A morning spent on Union Pacific’s line over Sherman Hill at Dale Junction, Wyoming included a blue sky full of puffy white clouds. ... (more)

Eastbound Union Pacific tonnage rolls through Dale Junction, Wyoming. Run-through Norfolk & Western power includes a breed seldom seen in these parts – a high hood SD45.

The first of 10 Conrail GE C30-7's built.

Lake Superior & Ishpeming’s 3 Tilden job heads west through Empire Junction with a pair of classic C30-7s.

Kind of out in the middle of nowhere, loads hold for empties to clear in the early days on the PRB boom.

Handling the "7 Weigher" today is one of the LS&I's two sets of former BN GE's. C30-7's #'s 3074 and 3073 arrive at Partridge Junction on CN's Marquette Range Subdivision to drop off a t... (more)

After bringing in a train of ore loads from the Tilden Mine, a 3 Tilden crew departs Eagle Mills, MI with a train consisting of three covered hoppers and two tank cars. The cars are bound for the ... (more)

LS&I 3074 leads 3 Tilden South into Negaunee.

Tom Golden photo.

A sb CSX train is approaching the Amtrak (ex-L&N) station as it comes down railroad gulch in downtown Birmingham behind a pair of GEs. The C30-7 in the lead was delivered to SCL (in Family Lines ... (more)

Leaning into the big curve at Notasulga, ten-year-old 7023 is still wearing the GE-applied Family Lines livery it wore when delivered to SCL in March 1979. It is teamed with a couple of SD45-2s, ... (more)

The LS&I 3 yard heads south through Eagle Mills Junction with some covered hoppers and tank cars for Tilden Mine.

MRS' empty freight train at Viracopos Yard.

Tom Golden photo.