A Santa Fe westbound rolls downhill through Bealville behind five EMD SD24s. As is apparent from the scene, Tehachapi Pass is a beautiful place in springtime.

FRVR 2401 is about to cross Oakwood Road in Oak Creek, WI on fine March day in 1990. The train is on CNW's New Line heading for Proviso. Although seldom photographed south of Milwaukee, the FRV tr... (more)

CBQ 504 and TTI 260 rest on the steam leads at the Illinois Railway Museum for showcase weekend night operations.

CBQ 504 and ATSF 92 sit side by side at IRM.

CB&Q 504 leads the Nebraska Zephyr east past Johnson siding.

Shortly after its October 1983 purchase of the Western Maryland Railway between Westminster and Highfield from Chessie System, Maryland Midland initiated excursion operations on that 37 mile segme... (more)

The grain elevator in Cozad, Nebraska, is Peavy's, but power assigned to handle the cars belongs to DeBruce Grain. DBGX "SD18M" 6634 was built in October 1959 as Southern Railway SD24 2... (more)

Dwarfed by the massive Farmland Service Co-op grain elevator in Gothenburg, Nebraska, is the engine that services it - M. Ryan Railway Service Contractors "SD20" 1021. Built in January ... (more)

Three Southern Railway SD24's with C&O F7A 7068 painted in an experimental Zebra paint scheme. Two F7As 7004 and 7068 with GP7 5761 and GP9 6141 were so painted. Photo from my collection, no photo... (more)

In 1974, Santa Fe was experiencing a power shortage. They pulled sets of SD24's and DL 600's out of storage using them in captive service between Barstow and Bakersfield. Here, a set of five SD24'... (more)

A northbound Fox River Valley Railroad freight passes a dairy farm between Campbellsport and Eden, Wisconsin, on March 25, 1990. Three of FRVR’s six-axle locomotives pull the train—the pair of EMD... (more)

A Fox River Valley freight cross the long bridge over Little Lake Butte Des Morts at Menasha, Wisconsin, on May 13, 1990. A colorful locomotive set from the Chicago & North Western spin-off short ... (more)

CBQ 504 rests outside Barn 2.

CB&Q 504 idles outside the diesel shop.