GN 274 leads the Wednesday morning Oregon Coast Scenic trip. It was my first time getting to see a locomotive in Great Northern paint operate. I feel kind of funny actually saying this, but I was ... (more)

The newest NS heritage unit, honoring the Delaware and Hudson, leads its first train after the paint booth. 34J is seen here departing the IHB and entering the NS Chicago Line in the shadow of for... (more)

Chicago to St. Louis Abraham Lincoln with UP coaches

Westbound works the yard

My Berkshire! Mess with it and pull back a shredded hand! He just looks that way. Somewhat aloof but sociable the roundhouse cat is actually one of two. A roundhouse would seem incomplete with... (more)

Helpers have cut off at Pipestone Pass

Rock Island's GP-7's were not equipped for suburban service, and so 1217 must be functioning as a switcher or pilot rather than the motive power for the whole train. That duty is probably going ... (more)

Eastbound Climbing St. Paul Pass east of Avery

Fresh out of the NS Town Hall Event broadcast from the Elkhart Car Shop, The NS 1080 sits waiting to be pulled back to the Engine House.

Two of the 1953 rebuilt E8Ms 83 and 85 with E6B 15A lay over at Dallas, Texas on October 1, 1961 between runs to Kansas City on Nos. 11-12 the KANSAS CITIAN. Photo by Al Chione, from my coll... (more)

In addition to the oddities, Cleveland Cliffs operated railroad Brandywine Valley uses a roster of leased GATX power to shift cars around the complex and to interchange with Norfolk Southern.

Pair of E-70's lead at Deer Lodge

Refurbished and ready for testing

GTW 5817 waits to go south from Shafer Yard at Oakwood Junction. A West bound NS train pulls across the Diamond as it departs Oakwood Yard on the old Wabash Line. The ICG 86 foot boxcar is designe... (more)

Rock Island mail and express kept No.21, the Memphis-Tucumcari train in the timetable in November 1962, as W/B FP7 410 leaves El Reno, OK. Only a chair car was operated for the few passengers,... (more)