Switching the SP interchange at Magma Junction

Detroit & Mackinac Alco RS-3's 974 and 975 with freight train leaving Cheboygan, Michigan's D&M yard on June 27, 1978.

Canadian National 802 was one of six 42" gauge EMD G8s built in 1956 for CN's Newfoundland narrow gauge lines. These 875hp units were usually found on the light-rail branch lines on the east ... (more)

On Canadian National's Newfoundland narrow gauge lines, triweekly mixed train 207 from St. John's has arrived at the end of the Argentia branch, where its trio of EMD G8s switch the wharf. Track g... (more)

A pair of PBNE SW900Ms approach the Lynn Avenue bridge in Bethlehem. Bethlehem Steel would continue operations at the adjacent facility for approximately three years after the date of this photo.... (more)

Santa Fe SD45R 5376 with SD40-2s 5042, 5129 and F45 5955.

Like Old Times

Conrail MP15’s 9629 and 9630 lead local WHRE-10 onto the Reading & Columbia Branch at Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania. The EMD’s, former Reading 2779 and 2780, resp... (more)

Claremont & Concord #18 eases a single box car down the steep grade into Coy Paper... a move that was the slightest bit extra challenging on this icy morning.

Claremont & Concord #18 eases a single box car down the steep grade into Coy Paper to perform a setout.

What appears to be a Bethlehem Steel coke train from Saucon yard rolls westbound on Conrail’s Lebanon Valley Line at Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania.

SP 9234 West meets an eastbound shy of a crossover west of Indio, CA, on the Sunset Route. The westbound's conductor is out of sight to the right of the photo giving the eastbound a roll-by. As th... (more)

Conrail local WHRE-10 has left the well-polished rails of the Lebanon Valley line at Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, and has entered the less-used Reading & Columbia Branch. The train will serve cus... (more)

Former Southern SD40-2, 3246, and Southern GP38-2, 5216, along with former N&W SD40-2, 6102, idle away at Winston-Salem's North Yard awaiting their next assignment.

Half-Patched

Both locomotives in this GP9/GP30 combination appear have been pulled out of the shop before the Conrail rebranding process could be completed. Both units’ long hood... (more)

Before delivering its coal loads to Davenport Cement, SP's Davenport Local cut off two of its four GP9s. Note the disrepair of the rail in the yard. The photographer remembers passing through this... (more)