An ex-Northern Pacific U25C plus two more 6 axle GEs hustle an empty westbound coal train beneath the EJ&E bridge on a fine June morning some 35 years ago. Scanned from a Kodachrome original slid... (more)

Built by N&W's Roanoke Shops in 1943, the 1218 is the only surviving example of the railroad's A Class steam locomotives. She is pulling an eastbound 20th Century Railroad Club special toward Ft.... (more)

A twenty year old FP7A switches the west leads at Shoreham Yard. This unit was built in March 1951 and was retired in December 1979.

A brand-new BN SD45 leads two former Great Northern SD45s westbound under the signal bridge at the west end of Eola Yard. From a Kodachrome slide.

An eastbound Rio Grande freight descends through Tunnel 29 deep in the canyon of South Boulder Creek on the Moffat Tunnel route. Hard to believe this scene was recorded more than a quarter centur... (more)

Fourteen months after the BN merger, an ex-Burlington GP30, now renumbered as the "Four Deuces", leads a westbound piggybacker into the curve near East Eola. From an Ektachrome slide.

Looking like Lionel O guage models, a trio of GP9s inherited from the Northern Pacific are tied-up at Northtown between runs. Note the steam locomotive bell on the short hood of two of the units.

On a hazy late summer afternoon, three commuter E units swap stories while parked in the Des Plaines coach yard on their weekend layover. No doubt, the CNW units are asking the newly-repainted RTA... (more)

Six units lead a westbound hotshot on the climb to Soldier Summit. Scanned from a Kodachrome 64 slide.

A pristine F7, privately-owned by Glen Monhart, leads the daily WICT train from Clearing Yard to Janesville, Wisconsin. Forced to back-up onto the 'dump' connection to the CNW New Line because of... (more)

Four short months into the Amtrak era, the eastbound San Francisco Zephyr waits out a station stop at Galesburg. The train is powered by three former Burlington E8s. Scanned from a Kodachrome sl... (more)

An ex-SP SD45 plus five more 20 cylinder brutes provide the rear-end muscle to push a loaded coal train up the 1.9% climb.

Even though the BN merger was two years old, it's mostly a CB&Q event as an eastbound train completes its work at Eola and departs for Cicero Yard in Chicago. The lead unit was purchased by the B... (more)

GP30s inherited from the Great Northern and Burlington Route congregate at the Savanna roundhouse during the extended strike by the Railway Clerks union.

The SP takes an ocean cruise...A westbound SP train is detouring on UP's ex-Western Pacific route just west of Salt Lake City. Back in the mid-eighties, high lake levels all but shut down SP's ow... (more)