About a month before it was absorbed by UP, power of various kinds idles in front of Western Pacific's shops in Stockton. A good portion of the power you see here will be gone or in a deadline onc... (more)

This weary-looking Alco high hood switcher, built in 1939, was one of Penn Central's oldest diesels, edged out only be a few ex-NYC SW1s. Former New Haven HH-660 0924 got a new number and a patche... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western 2-8-0 346 rests outside the Colorado Railroad Museum. The lighting shows off the consolidation’s Russia Iron boiler jacket.

CNW 6916 skirts the shores of Goose Lake near Marquette, MI on a beautiful day in June of 1988. Alco's pulled these ore trains just a few years earlier, but the SD40-2's were nice in their own rig... (more)

Tennessee Alabama & Georgia (TAG) 80 is seen here on leading TVRM 225 Dinner Train Special down Chattanooga Belt Line through the Avondale community on a quite Saturday evening. As ... (more)

SD80MACs 4104 and 4110 leave Selkirk yard with a Boston line freight.

The units were 137 (GP35), 127 (GP40), 125 (GP40), 1011 (E8A), and 101 (GP7).

Providence & Worcester GP38-2 2006 and its M420W mate await their next assignment outside the P&W's yard office in Worcester, MA.

A new crew walks over to their westbound train from the Butler yard office in the middle of a Wisconsin snowstorm on December 3, 1990. The arriving crew made a setout with PRGBA (Proviso to Green ... (more)

This rotary snow plow was built in 1898 in Patterson at Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works. The tender was replaced in 1940 by a PRR tender. The rotary ploew was retired in 1965 and moved to the S... (more)

Two westbound E-44s with a sister dead-in-tow are climbing the short, sharp grade from the Port Road to the Enola Branch. It's almost startling to see the graffiti-free boxcars of 40 years ago. ... (more)

CNW 934 and 933 wait to depart CNW's Butler, WI yard in April of 1974. The CNW only had 7 of the units, and they only lasted 10 years on the CNW before going to Mexico. 934 was wrecked however and... (more)

In a high country snowstorm, an eastbound Burlington Northern freight has stopped at the end of double track to meet a westbound freight on March 3, 1988. Even though the wet snow and wind is maki... (more)

EMD’s in four paint schemes wait for a new crew in the passing siding on the Monongahela Railway at White Cottage, Pennsylvania. The train is half-loaded with coal from Consolidated Energy’s B... (more)