CBQ 504, SP 1518 and CNW 6847 make for quite a striking lineup as they sit, tied down after IRM's 2011 Diesel Days.

Southern SD24 #6309 running long hood forward leaving Spencer, NC || June 1971

Station at North Garden was still manned but was torn down sometime in 1968/69

Those tanks make the look.

North Platte was quite the happening place railroad wise in the 70's. Pool power from about everyone was all over the place. Most days it wasn't uncommon to see CNW, MILW, SLSF, BN, RI, IC, NW, WP... (more)

Actually owned or leased by Conagra, MMID is about the only lettering on this ex-BN, nee CB&Q dinosaur. The units were acquired by MMID in the mid 80s but apparently did not work out. It did no... (more)

The Diesel Days night photo session at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Westbound ATSF freight on the 3 % track with two rebuilt SD24, so called SD26

The wayfreight passes the depot tracks at West Union enroute to make a setout on the CNW interchange.

The IRM's unexpected CBQ line up with the Nebraska Zephyr to the Left and the steamer to the right.

WC 2401,589 switch out some pulp loads at Trout Lake on a cold winter day. The building to the far left of 2401 was the section foreman's house and had not seen use since the 1950's. Remarkably it... (more)

A mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain had been falling all day, but the WC was still up to the challenge with this only on the WC fantastic lash up. 2401,6639,1752 and 3021 have the 75 cars of tr... (more)

The two ex FRV SD24's that WC inherited with the take over of that road quickly found a home in Upper Michigan, working along with a number of SDL39's on the light rail of the Ex DSS&A line from T... (more)