Can you tell that the guts are Alco?

The classic Class J, rods down and smoke lying out flat, dashes across rural Ohio on a ferry move between Roanoke and Chicago. This evening's destination is Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Everybody's looking for a good angle! Bound for Columbus, the Class A had stopped and now eases forward across the B&O double-track main line.

Having been withdrawn for repair to suspension components, the Northwest's iconic Talgo trainsets are beginning to return to Cascade Service. Welcome back!

Couldn't call AAA for this one! A Hulcher crew changes out the front truck of Genesis 28, reportedly suffering from a seized traction motor.

On those (rare) occasions when the Ann Arbor interchanged with Conrail here, it involved a steep climb up to and over North Main Street. Perhaps that's one reason they stopped doing it.

A former GBW unit, this Alco wound up its career on the Toledo-Ann Arbor stub of the old Annie.

Three "Cadillacs" return to San Luis Obispo from assisting a northbound freight over the Cuesta grade. They'll shortly tie up until the next assignment on the oil-stained track in the foreground.... (more)

Locally, cabooses are used to cover long back-up moves on the main line. It's nice to see one get the respect, and fresh paint, this duty deserves!

Four locomotives on the head end and five more helpers cut in mid-train boost a typical long SP freight up the Cuesta grade and over the Santa Margueritas.

Back when crewmen kept a watchful eye from the rear end -- two C&O employees monitor a westbound coal train's progress around the Plymouth wye.

The Galesburg engine facility, not long before it began to take on the orange hues with which we associate it today, although a close look reveals quite a mixed bag of power at any rate.

Another example of the thinking at "America's Resourceful Railroad," that unfortunately could not keep the company in business. These "SD10s" were rebuilt from SD9s.

The GP30 was pointing the wrong way, so a lowly Geep gets the honors of leading this southbound freight toward Toledo.

The Daylight, together with UP 844, struts south along Puget Sound on its second of two Tacoma-Everett double-headed excursions of the weekend.