Big Alco RSD15 No. 5161 works SP's hump at Eugene Yard. Note the unusual-looking antenna atop the cab. By this time, SP's Alligators were being removed from road service, while Santa Fe's were sti... (more)

Move over 1943, Here's your UP Lab LOCO! This franken-ALCO was a graveyard smash! It was spotted at the Bluffs in the Summer Of Love prior to being traded in to EMD in '68 for it's own 'monster m... (more)

Industrial Monster TAKRAF ERS-710 is a crawler excavator with superstructure - a real iron monster, with a height of 6-storey house! The German company TAKRAF in Leipzig, speciali... (more)

I was a California boy, and I had seen stuff like this only in pictures. When Uncle Sam gave me an all expenses paid trip to the East Coast, it was like a whole different world. The GG-1's were ... (more)

Milwaukee Road electric locomotives Nos. E29 and E82 sit quietly at the railroad's Deer Lodge engine facility awaiting their next assignment.

Union Pacific's EMD DD35B's mingle with stored GP9/SD24A and B units on the deadline at Council Bluffs on November 12, 1979. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer listed... (more)

Little Joe Stalin’s Locomotives

That’s what Milwaukee Road crews called that road’s twelve big electrics that were nearly identical to this South Shore example, seen here at ... (more)

Two U50's spliced by a GP9B lead an early pig train.

Circa 1955. This is a scan of an original historical image purchased on an online auction in South Africa – unfortunately the photographer is unknown. Class DE2 No. 1200 (the class leader) pic... (more)

One third of the Union Pacific’s roster of Alco Century 855’s, number 61, is on the move westbound, having topped off its 4,000-gallon fuel tank at North Platte. On October 2, 1966, the 5,500-... (more)

New Jersey DOT 4877, repainted in PRR’s Tuscan scheme, lays over in the South Amboy engine terminal. In the right background, an E8 can be seen on one of the engine house tracks. The 4877 surviv... (more)

North Platte, Nebraska, was and remains the place to sample everything old and new running on the Union Pacific. On October 2, 1966, the new included Alco Century 855 61, parked at the fuel rack j... (more)

The one-of-a-kind 10,000 horsepower EMD GM10B is waiting on a crew by the ancient PRR grade crossing sign along South Front Street. EMD borrowed some design technology from ASEA/Sweden (Allmänna... (more)