MILW 24 leads a nicely set up quartet of SD40-2s on a westbound freight as it slows for a meet at Beverly, WA. Catenery poles still stand along the right of way on Milwaukee's mainline, where boxc... (more)

A pair of Bloomer Line EMD's pull a train out of the hill in Sibley, Illinois on the former Illinois Central with an all C&NW car grain train.

A McKeen railcar rests at the Kettle Moraine Scenic Railroad in North Lake, WI in October of 1992. The unit was difficult to photograph as it was surrounded by trees. Originally built in 1910 for ... (more)

Rolling along in the shadow of Mt. Shasta, an eastbound Siskiyou Line train crosses the Shasta Valley, heading for Medford.

Rock Island train to Chicago with two private cars stops at La Salle/Peru Station

NORMAN OK September 1977 -- Santa Fe F7A 275 is tied down in downtown Norman. It will be the lead unit when the Norman turn returns to Nowers Yard in Oklahoma City. This site is within feet of the... (more)

Six Burlington Northern F units were stored at Denver’s stockyards for a time in the mid-1980s. BN F7 No. 732 is a former Northern Pacific locomotive.

I was fortunate to visit the Cisco bridge prior to its fire. Here a CP train heads east under the CN bridge after crossing the Fraser River on its own bridge. The CN Cisco bridge suffered a fire a... (more)

EL RENO OK Jan 5 1976 -- Rock Island F9A 4166 takes a ride on the turntable.

Nevada Copper Belt #21- built in 1911 by the Hall-Scott Motor Car Company in Berkeley, California. No. 21 was operated until the railroad abandoned in 1947 and was saved from scrapping by railfans... (more)

Fog, snow and rain make for a dreary mixture on Snoqualmie Pass as a westbound Milwaukee Road freight descends the pass and crosses Hull Creek trestle. Catenary poles still stand on the bridge ack... (more)

Having just entered the former Monon Road (presently, in 1983, L&N) mainline from Chicago on trackage rights, a southbound Terre Haute to Louisville manifest tiptoes along J Street while obeying t... (more)

NP 907, an Alco RS-11, gets a look under the hood by a mechanic at Burlington Northern's X-GN roundhouse in Superior, WI. Former GN passenger GP9 no. 679 looks on, and symmetry is kept by a pair o... (more)

EL RENO OK Feb 4 1980 -- Rock Island GP9R 4489 is in for service. Also identifiable are GP7R 4441, GP7R 4454, SW1 531 and U33B 285. This is a view of the El Reno shop facility looking east-southea... (more)

On a beautiful winter's day in 1973, an eastbound Santa Fe manifest attacks Cajon's western slope.