I'm not a fan of leased power on shortlines, but if I'm going to get it I'll take an ex-SP GP40-2 with a free flow blower, large plow and horizontal headlight, in IC&E paint... one of the later GP... (more)
Running light after making a delivery at Speed LIRC's 2301 races back to its Jeffersonville yard passing the Clark County airport.
BN 1726 has arrived in Butte with its freight after crossing Homestake Pass and Bozeman Hill having originated in Livingston. A UP A-B-B-A set consisting of an SD40, two GP30Bs and a GP30 sit near... (more)
BN 1726 leads a quartet of GP9/18s waiting for the North Coast Hiawatha to leave Livingston for Butte which it will follow with the daily freight. All units were NP, the 4th, BN 1998 was a GP18. T... (more)
Main Street Moves: BB17 leads a local train west over the main street bridge in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, as it heads west for its next stops for work.
Five GP's are in charge of a manifest in the Price River Canyon. GP40-2's, a GP40, and GP35 brings up the rear. D&RGW 3120, 3095, 3089, 3119, 3047 at Kyune, Utah.
Illinois Central’s Markham Local speeds southbound between Peotone and Manteno, Illinois, on a clear January 21, 1989. Leading the train is solid orange Illinois Central Gulf EMD GP10 No. 8186.
An empty bottle train works back towards East Chicago. The train just came out of the ArcelorMittal steel-making plant in Riverdale, These bottle trains are loaded at 3 different blast furnaces in... (more)
Power for the Boron local about to begin switching duties at Boron.
T003 has just entered Waukesha Yard Limits and eases East. In a little over a mile, the crew will reach Grand Avenue, where they'll run North on the Canadian National Waukesha Sub to Slinger.
Four A&O GP 38-2's throttle up as the lead Carter Roag loads back to Grafton on the Pickens Sub.
Passing through Napa Street, BNSF’s Chewelah Turn approaches Yardley at Spokane, Washington, on October 6, 2018. Powered by an impressive A-B-B-B-B-A set of EMD locomotives—GP60M No. 105 leadi... (more)
A Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern Railroad loaded Grain Train heads north to Kankakee as they cross the Kankakee River in Aroma Park, Illinois.
Waiting for maintenance of way to finish up ahead, a former PC, ex CR "retread" idles away. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.
L617 begins switching with an ex-Reading and D&H GP39-2 leading.
